Trained as a cognitive linguist and semanticist, I work on how we “construe” language uses by looking into conceptual structures that external linguistic signals tap in our mind. My job is to make explicit the covert presence of the conceptual structures in language use within the framework of Cognitive Linguistics.

인지언어학 , 특히 인지의미론자로서 , 영어를 포함한 언어 표현 일반이 사용자들의 마음속에 어떠한 개념 구조를 환기시키는지 , 또 그를 통해 언어 사용자들이 언어 자극을 어떻게 개념화하고 “해석”하는지에 흥미를 갖고 연구합니다 . 또한 인지언어학을 중심으로 영어 구문 , 의미에 대한 강의를 하고 있습니다 .

최종학력

Ph. D in Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley

전공분야

Cognitive Linguistics, Syntax / Semantics

주요 연구

My personal research is particularly concerned with understanding viewpoint phenomena of subjectivity in languages. Specifically, I investigate linguistic/ conceptual categories of Evidentiality and Epistemic modality in Korean and other languages. My analyses majorly rely on cognitive linguistic approaches such as Mental Spaces Theory, Frame Semantics, Simulations, Neural Theory of Language, (Embodied) Construction Grammar, Conceptual Metaphor, and Conceptual Blending

주요 강의

• English Syntax (Spring, UG), English Semantics (Fall, UG)
• Cognitive Linguistics I, II (Spring, Fall, G),
• Topics in Cognitive Linguistics I, II (Fall, Spring, G)
  

주요 논문/저서

• 2023. with Kang, Lumi (as corresponding author). Construing the picket sign my body, my choice within a Viewpoint-spaces network. Discourse and Cognition 30(1): 1-34. https://doi.org/10.15718/discog.2023.30.1.1
  
  
• 2023. with Ji-in Kang, Hanbeom Jung, A Young Kwon (as corresponding author). Meaning extensions of internet memes: A case study of the 'If 2020 was a(n) X' meme. Review of Cognitive Linguistics. 21(1): 178-209. https://doi.org/10.1075/rcl.00131.kan

• 2021. with Hanbeom Jung (as corresponding author). Carefully Does It, Reckless Does Not: A Usage-based Approach to the INSTRUCTIONAL MANUAL Construction. Korean Journal of Linguistics 46(4): 927-963. https://doi.org/10.18855/lisoko.2021.46.4.002.
  
  
• 2021. with Eunsong Kim (as first and corresponding author). (Meta-)Ground Viewpoint Space and structurally-framed irony: A case study of the mobile game Liyla and the Shadows of War. Cognitive Linguistics. 32(1): 1-33. https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2020-0001
  
  
• 2021. Between COMMITMENT and CERTAINTY: A cognitive semantic approach to an I promise construction in English. Review of Cognitive Linguistics 19(1): 51-79. https://doi.org/10.1075/rcl.00076.kwo.
  
  
• 2020. with Ahrim Kim (as corresponding author). Hortatives, imperatives, and the directive speech-act continuum: A usage-based approach to the Korean -ca hortative construction. Lingua. 245: 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2020.102928.
  
  
• 2020. with Ahrim Kim (as corresponding author). The Korean hortative construction revisited: Prototypical and extended functions. Pragmatics 30(3):351-380. https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.19014.kim
  
  
• 2019. Cengsinkongkan ilon-uy hoyko-wa cenmang [Retrospects and prospects of Mental-spaces theory]. Discourse and cognition 26(4):1-43. [In Korean].
  
  
• 2019. Conceptual Metaphors and Performativity in the Sunshine Policy. Review of Cognitive Linguistics 17(1): 275-294.
  
  
• 2019. Conceptual mappings in political cartoons: A comparative study of the case of nuclear crises in US-North Korean relations. Journal of Pragmatics 143: 10-27