An Analysis of Korean Proverbs related with pap 'rice'

`밥`과 관련된 한국어 속담 분석

This paper attempts to analyze Korean proverbs with pap 'rice' which plays an important role in the Korean community. I examine to analyze the data under the various frameworks: Grice, lakoff and Langacker. Proverbs use the contrast in order to focus the speaker's intention and to get the convince from hearers. I limited to analyze coordinate sentences since these distinctively show the contrast and the relation. In terms of the contrast and the relation, the semantic interpretations of pap can be easily taken. These semantic interpretations are classified under the Lakoff's metaphors.