The present study, as a follow-up research of Jo (2017), continues to test Ullmann’s (1963) theoretical framework of “hierarchical distribution” through synesthetic data retrieved from Korean compound words. Namely, this study intends to judge the reliability and generalization of previous results found in synesthetic data from Korean National Corpus, and furthermore to explore the characteristics of synesthetic phenomena in compound words which have not been yet touched upon in this field. The data are gathered through the manual inspection with respect to the materials of Korean WordNet and Standard Korean Grand Dictionary, which are both used for the source of compound synesthesia, together with compounds from the author’s intuition. As a result, Korean compound word synesthesia faithfully confirms the conclusion of Jo’s (2017) study of Korean parsed corpus synesthesia which strongly supports Ullmann’s (1963) synesthetic hierarchy, from the point of view of frequency tendency. The compound-word synesthesia, however, has some specificities in regards of source and target of the mappings. In other words, the role of vision is maximized as the source, while minimized as the target, and there appears no source domain in olfaction and audition.
@InProceedings{CHARMHUN18.14, author = {JO Charmhun}, title = {Synesthetic Metaphors in Korean Compound Words}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)}, year = {2018}, month = {may}, date = {7-12}, location = {Miyazaki, Japan}, editor = {Barry Devereux and Ekaterina Shutova and Chu-Ren Huang}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, address = {Paris, France}, isbn = {979-10-95546-08-5}, language = {english} }
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