METAPHORIZATION OF BORROWINGS (FOCUSING ON ENGLISH BORROWINGS IN KOREAN)

Abstract

Тhe vocabulary of modern Korean (South Korean variant) is actively enriched with anglicisms under conditions of intensive language contact. As a rule, in the process of borrowing the semantic narrowing occurs, and then in the process of assimilation and adaptation of anglicisms in the Korean language and culture its semantic meaning expands, including mechanisms of metaphorization. New words and concepts from English are reinterpreted within the conceptual system and metaphorical thinking of the Korean people. The material of the study was a corpus of 387 multistructured metaphorical units obtained by continuous sampling from Korean language explanatory dictionaries, collections of Korean language neologisms for six years from 2017 to 2022, and websites of South Korean newspapers. The semantic-cognitive method was applied to identify diff erent types of metaphorical nominations and patterns through analyzing the semantics of linguistic units.The analysis of the linguistic material identifi ed artifactual, nature-morphic, sociomorphic, anthropomorphic, and spatial metaphors; complete and partial metaphors. The source areas are familiar everyday spheres, and metaphorical expansion occurs in spheres that are of great importance in contemporary South Korean society from the perspective of Korean speakers. The following types of metaphorization in the corpus were identifi ed: metaphorization through autonomous secondary nomination, metaphorization through derivational word formation, blending, word formation, and two-component phrase formation involving Anglicisms. The following types of metaphorization in the corpus were identifi ed: metaphorization through autonomous secondary nomination, metaphorization through derivational word formation, blending, word formation, and two-component phrase formation involving Anglicisms. The most frequent examples of metaphorization in the corpus are those arising in the course of word formation and two-component phrase formation (46 %), as well as in the words-portmanteau (38 %).