Abstract
The purpose of this study is to examine the patterns of semantic expansion and the cognitive process of Korean and Chinese adjectives for cold, including “춥다, 차다, 시리다/冷” and “차갑다, 서늘하다, 선선하다/凉.” To this end, various aspects of semantic expansion in actual usage of the languages were categorized through a corpus analysis. Furthermore, the cognitive process was analyzed through the conceptual metaphor and conceptual metonymy theories of cognitive linguistics. As a result, it was found that various factors related to temperature, such as our senses, experience, life, and phenomena, become the main conceptual factors that cause semantic expansion. In particular, expansion to the areas of emotions and attitudes was remarkable in both Korean and Chinese, along with other areas. That is, while the common perception of Korean and Chinese speakers causes semantic expansion in the same areas, differences were also found. This study suggested that the reason lies in the differences in Korean and Chinese morphologies and the geographical and climatic environment of the two countries.
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