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Hong, Dal Oh. 2015. A Cognitive Lingustic Study of the Network Characteristic of ‘Sigan + Predicative’ Metaphors Korean Journal of Linguistics, 40-3, 579-599. This study analyzed the network pattern of ‘sigan + predicative’ metaphors using network analysis tool Pajek. For this study, first, the frequency of predicatives combined with Sino.Korean word ‘sigan (時間: time)’ was extracted from daily metaphors, and it was visualized using the network program. In time metaphors of everyday language, the top 20 expressions occupied over 80% of the total frequency. When this was represented in network, the pattern showed powerful centrality. This is probably because the time perception of the words restricts possible expressions severely. Such a characteristic of time metaphors in everyday language is even clearer when they are compared with literary time metaphors. The same expressions observed in daily metaphors are used actively in literary metaphors, but there are various other literary expressions, though occurring at very low infrequency, which are not used at all in everyday language. Literary metaphors show both centrality and eccentricity at the same time. This is because authors are influenced by the powerful cognitive norms of daily metaphors but try to avoid the influence intentionally. Next, this study examined the network structure of ‘sewol (歲月: time) + predicative’ and ‘ddae (time) + predicative,’ which are in a synonymic relation with ‘sigan + predicative’ metaphor. Using program Pajek, we can get a view of the entire network because expressions are networked in the concept of distance according to the frequency of occurrence of metaphors. According to the results of analysis, ‘sigan,’ ‘sewol,’ and ‘ddae’ have source domains that are ‘moving objects’ by nature. ‘Sigan’ has a more extensive source domain than the other two, and its use is active. [+ historical situation] is found only with ‘sewol.’ Accordingly, ‘sewol’ is combined with a psychological adjective. Different from ‘sigan’ and ‘sewol,’ ‘ddae’ indicates [+ length]. In addition, one of its remarkable characteristics is that it has the meaning of [+ opportunity]. When the Jaccard similarity of the three metaphors were examined, the synonymy between ‘sigan’ and ‘sewol’ was higher than that between ‘sigan’ and ‘ddae’ or between ‘ddae’ and ‘sewol.’ (Chung-Ang University)