Lexicalization patterns in color naming in Korean

Seongha Rhee

doi:10.1075/sfsl.78.06rhe

Lexicalization patterns in color naming in Korean

Seongha Rhee

Hankuk University of Foreign Studies

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Abstract

Korean has a large inventory of color terms lexicalized through diverse strategies. Sound symbolism is one of the most determinative factors. Sound symbolism operative in color naming includes vowel polarity, consonant tensing and aspiration, prefixation of intensifiers, phonetic extension, and reduplicative suffixation, through which diverse aspects of color perception, e.g., intensity, luminosity, extent, solidity and pleasurability, are encoded. Color naming patterns in Korean reveals an iconic relationship between the perceived state of affairs in the world and the linguistic forms in an intricate application of elaborate sound symbolism, which suggests synesthesia with other related perceptual domains such as auditory perception, distance perception, opacity perception, and value judgment.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics
Publisher	John Benjamins Publishing Company
Pages	109-131
Number of pages	23
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1075/sfsl.78.06rhe
Publication status	Published - 2019
Externally published	Yes

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Name	Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics
Volume	78
ISSN (Print)	1385-7916

Keywords

color lexicalization
consonant tensing
extent
intensity
luminosity
pleasurability
solidity
sound symbolism
synesthesia
vowel polarity

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