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This thesis is a study on the metaphor and metonymy expressed in color expressions of Korean and Spanish from the cognitive semantic point of view. From the cognitive semantic point of view, a considerable portion of the meaning in color expressions is motivated by the metaphoric knowledge possessed...

This thesis is a study on the metaphor and metonymy expressed in color expressions of Korean and Spanish from the cognitive semantic point of view. From the cognitive semantic point of view, a considerable portion of the meaning in color expressions is motivated by the metaphoric knowledge possessed by language users. This thesis attempts to look into several examples of conceptual metaphors and metonymies expressed in modern Korean and Spanish color expressions and reveal their characteristics.
In Chapter 2, various theories on the metaphors and metonymies are reviewed. Both concepts are the main topic of cognitive semantic theory, the theoretical background of this thesis.
In Chapter 3, the metaphors and metonymies in the color expressions are analyzed. This analysis shows that Korean and Spanish color expressions which obtain meaning based on conceptual metaphors and conceptual metonymies are motivated by the image schema and the physiological metonymy.
In Chapter 4, the characteristics of metaphors and metonymy from the Korean and Spanish color expressions analyzed in Chapter 3 is comprehensively studied. Both Korean and Spanish have the similar color terms. But in Korean, we can see more derivation forms than Spanish because of the higher tendency to make new words. And the results of this study are as follows:
Most of the color terms in both Spanish and Korean have similar extensional meanings. These two languages also produce several different meanings. It should be concluded, from what has been said above, that color terms are systematically motivated by semantic extension mechanisms, and that most expressions exhibit metonymic motivation, upon which numerous color terms are based and then extended metaphorically.
This study confirms that the meaning of color terms of Korean and Spanish does not lose relevancy to the literal meaning and the metaphors and metonymy involved in the formation of meaning in idioms are not dead-metaphors which have no function, but are clearly and spontaneously connected with literal meaning in our conceptual system.