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Yoon, Kyung Joo. 2007. Korean Ethnopsychology Reflected in the Concept of Ceng 'affection': Semantic and Cultural Interpretation. Discourse and Cognition 14.3, 81-103. This paper explores a linguistic approach to understanding Korean ethnopsychology through the culture-specific concept of ceng. The aim of this study is to describe the meanings of ceng, and one of the fixed expressions containing ceng, ceng tteleci- 'be disgusted', in order to illustrate a Korean way of thinking and feeling. It is widely agreed that ceng reflects the essence of Korean psychology in both interpersonal relations and personality characteristics (Choi and Kim 1996; Kim and Choi 2002; Choi, Kim, and Kim 2000). Understanding the meaning of ceng and the fixed expressions containing ceng in daily conversations is critical for cultural outsiders of Korean culture, in particular, language learners of Korean. I adopt the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (henceforth NSM) theory for semantic analysis of the given expressions. The analysis is based on linguistic evidence collected from corpus and other resources as well as previous research in Korean cultural psychology. As a result, the culture-specific concept will be paraphrased into simple concepts that are claimed to be universal semantic primitives so that they can be understood cross-linguistically and cross-culturally. (Australian National University/ Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)
