Nahyun Kwon
List of John Benjamins publications in which Nahyun Kwon is involved.
Articles
2020 The relationship between iconicity and systematicity in Korean ideophones Operationalizing Iconicity, Perniss, Pamela, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg (eds.), pp. 21–38 | Chapter
This chapter investigates the relationship between two forms of non-arbitrariness in Korean ideophones: relative iconicity, which is a resemblance-based mapping between relations among multiple forms and relations among multiple meanings (exemplified by paradigmatic consonantal symbolism), and… read more
2019 Chapter 4. Cross-linguistic variation in phonaesthemic canonicity, with special reference to Korean and English Ideophones, Mimetics and Expressives, Akita, Kimi and Prashant Pardeshi (eds.), pp. 77–100 | Chapter
This study compares the canonicity values of Korean paradigmatic phonaesthemes (e.g., pɛŋpɛŋ: pʰɛŋpʰɛŋ ‘a neutral: stronger and more violent motion of circling’; piŋkɨl: pɛŋkɨl ‘twirling of a bigger: smaller object’) and of English non-paradigmatic phonaesthemes (e.g., gl- ‘vision, light’ in… read more