This paper, titled “Word Association Research Methods”, reports on a comparative questionnaire conducted by 200 native Koreans and 200 native Chinese who are requested to answer an associative word within ten seconds per question. The result was explored according to each language: 1) Analyzing associative words indicating paradigmatic and syntagmic relationship from a linguistic viewpoint 2) Analyzing the meanings and features from social and cultural viewpoint; and 3) The meaningful interpretation was carried out by comparing and contrasting the character of the two languages. In this questionnaire, the analysis of words association was conducted by using only six words, which were ‘hobby’, ‘appear’, ‘happen’, ‘broad’, ‘afraid’, and ‘beautiful’, out of twenty words. Approximately 55% of Koreans and 44% of Chinese replied kinds of ‘hobby’in response to the question ‘what word makes you think of ‘hobby’’. ‘Talent’, a word of high frequency in word association has represented the feature of social class well. ‘Disappear’, which has the opposite meaning of ‘appear’, is a word of high frequency in word association of ‘appear’. When seeing any words, Koreans associated them with negative circumstance or objects. However, in case of Chinese, it was vice versa. Chinese presented ‘appear’ as a word association of ‘happen’. Considering ‘miracle’ is associated many times as a word association of ‘happen’ as well as a word association of ‘appear’, Chinese have strongly recognized ‘happen’ and ‘appear’ as having a meaningful relationship than have Koreans. A meaningful analysis result was achieved for the given words ‘broad’ and ‘beautiful’. Unlike researches have done before, which have studied word association from linguistic viewpoint, this findings are significant in that the research involved two groups from different languages and cultures comparing word association. Such a research might also be effectively applied to the communication and lexicon education of Korean learners.
목차
1. 서론 1) 연구 목적과 의의 2) 연구 방법 2. 한국인과 중국인의 단어 연상 비교ㆍ대조 1) 취미/爱好 2) 나타나다/出现 3) 발생하다/发生 4) 넓다/宽 5) 무섭다/可怕 6) 아름답다 / 美 3. 결론 참고문헌 Abstract
키워드
word associationassociation meaningassociative wordanalysis of the meaningword association of Koreansword association of Chinese
중앙어문학회 [The Society of Chung-Ang Language & Literature]
설립연도
1993
분야
인문학>한국어와문학
소개
국어국문학의 연구를 통하여 국어국문학의 발전에 기여하고 국어국문학의 학풍을 진작함에 있다. 이에, 국어국문학 연구 자료의 조사/수집/정리 및 연구 결과의 평가와 편집을 하고, 전국 학회 규모의 연구 발표회와 각 분과별 세미나의 개최를 연 4회 한다. 또한 <어문론집>(현재 32집 발간)과 연구물의 간행한다. 더불어 국내외 연구 단체와의 제휴도 그 목적이 있다.