다의어 RUN의 의미 분석

Abstract

One of the most important things when we study English is to learn the meaning of the words. Although verb 'run' is used in various situations, interrelation among them is ambiguous. In other words, I try to examine that the meaning of the words can't be defined as itself but connected with cognitive domain to explain them properly. So, I want to show the profound relations of the words which rarely seem to be similar though it can't reveal all of the polysemy phenomenon. Also it can be explained natural way by the semantic network approach. This paper analyzes the internal semantic structures of a polysemous word 'run' to verify the validity of semantic network approach to polysemy within the framework of cognitive linguistics. Furthermore, it is shown that all of its meanings are closely interwoven through human cognitive mechanism such as prototype theory, metaphor, and metonymy. This paper consists of introduction, prototype theory, metaphor, metonymy, an analysis of semantic structure of 'run' and conclusion.