한국과 미국의 대중가요 가사에 나타난 ‘사랑’의 의미적 음상(音相) - 코퍼스언어학적 접근

• 영문명: The Semantic Prosody of "love" in Korean and American Pop Lyrics : A Corpuslinguistic Approach
• 발행기관: 한국사회언어학회
• 저자명: 김용진(Kim Yong-jin)
• 간행물 정보: 『사회언어학』제15권 1호, 47~76쪽, 전체 30쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2007.06.30

영문 초록

  The purpose of this paper is to cross-culturally analyze the meaning of "love" in Korean and American pop lyrics of 1980"s. Pointing out that the information provided by dictionaries is not sufficient to understand the cultural meaning of "love", the corpus analytic method of semantic prosody is introduced as it is explicated by Hunston (2002). Using this semantic prosody technique, three different sets of pop lyrics are analyzed with WordSmith Tools software. The three data sets, one Korean and two American, represent 150 pop lyrics. Specifically, these texts are analyzed in terms of distribution patterns of "love" in the lyrics. First, the modification pattern of "love" is investigated. It is found that the Korean data is significantly skewed toward negative expressions, producing negative semantic prosody of "love", while the American data which reflect American culture is overwhelmingly skewed toward positive expressions, producing positive semantic prosody. That is, Koreans experience "love" in a fairly negative terms in their pop music, while Americans basically treat it positively. Interestingly, the American pop lyrics popular with the Korean public show in-between characteristics. Next, the predication patterns of "love" are investigated when it plays the role of subject NP. The result again shows that these two cultures define "love" drastically differently in their pop music. In sum, the semantic prosody technique proved to be useful as an analytic method for cross-cultural studies.

목차

Abstract
Ⅰ. 연구의 목적과 범위
Ⅱ. 한국과 미국의 문화적 전통과 "사랑"의 표현
Ⅲ. 한국과 미국 대중가요 가사에서의 "사랑"의 표현
Ⅳ. 결론 : 의미적 음상과 문화적 의미
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키워드

cross-cultural analysis language and culture love pop lyrics semantic prosody