전경-배경의 의미 전이 현상에 관한 연구

Abstract

“Figure” is an element which is small and salient while “Ground” is large and stationary. However, sometimes the “Figure-Ground” relationship becomes reversed and shifted in semantic notions, and these phenomena are shown in various ways of the linguistic expressions. This paper examines that the Figure-Ground reversal can include syntactic reversal and semantic reversal. The former happens in an agentive clause, a nonagentive clause, and the movement of an argument in a syntactic structure. The latter occurs in the active zone and in the fictive motion. In addition, there is a general Figure-Ground meaning shift from polysemy and the semantic extension of verbs. Consequently, it will be demonstrated through the Figure-Ground meaning shift that there is an exception in the common ways of conceptualization.