Abstract

BAHON ARNAIZ, Cristina. A Linguistic Analysis of Korean Ideophones in an Extract from a Park Min-Gyu Short Story. Estud. Asia Áfr. [online]. 2022, vol.57, n.1, pp.5-32.  Epub Mar 14, 2022. ISSN 2448-654X.  https://doi.org/10.24201/eaa.v57i1.2696.

Ideophones and onomatopoeia have received surprisingly little attention in Romance languages, including Spanish. They have been misunderstood and marginalized as peripheral, immature, unnecessary and less-linguistic words, deprived of the significant, scholarly attention that they deserve. Recently, due to the success of mangas and webtoons, the number of studies related to onomatopoeia have increased. However, studies in Spanish related to Korean ideophones and onomatopoeia remain limited. This research, focused on Korean ideophones, aims to demonstrate the relevance of these words in Korean, a clearly phonosymbolic language. To do this, the linguistic characteristics of Korean ideophones are explained, followed by the analysis of a short text, written by the contemporary writer Park Min-Gyu, formed by eleven ideophones and two examples of onomatopoeia.

Keywords : ideophone; onomatopoeia; iconicity; Korean; mimetic words.

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