Ji-Yeon Park
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ji-Yeon Park is involved.
Articles
2024 The semantic extension of Korean ideophones in newspapers headlines: Focusing on printed newspapers from 1990 to 2000 Korean Linguistics 20:1, pp. 1–32 | Article
This paper explores the semantic features of Korean ideophones in newspaper headlines. This paper argues that (i) there is a strong relationship between the language-specific sound symbolic meanings – dark and light vowel polarity and the meanings of ideophones in newspaper headlines and event… read more
2022 The phonosemantics of the Korean monosyllabic ideophone ttak Iconicity in Cognition and across Semiotic Systems, Lenninger, Sara, Olga Fischer, Christina Ljungberg and Elżbieta Tabakowska (eds.), pp. 369–388 | Chapter
The aim of this study is to show how the Korean monosyllabic ideophone ttak functions in spoken register. Ttak is the most frequent ideophone in Korean everyday conversation. Using a spoken corpus, it is proposed that (i) ttak functions as an epistemic modality marker that expresses certainty… read more
2020 Morphosyntactic integration of ideophones in Japanese and Korean: A corpus-based analysis of spoken and written discourse Operationalizing Iconicity, Perniss, Pamela, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg (eds.), pp. 57–74 | Chapter
This study explores how the morphosyntactic integration of ideophones differs between two registers of two ideophone-rich languages, Japanese and Korean. Previous studies have demonstrated that the iconicity and expressive power of ideophones in spoken language are inversely correlated with… read more