A Comparative Study On Idiom Of Human Body In Chinese And Korean

Idiom is one kind of locution. It is used widely in our daily life. It has fixed format and fixed meaning, so that we can not consider its literal meaning and its true meaning to be the same. Therefore, Korean students without Chinese cultural background feel it hard to understand Chinese idiom.Idiom can be consisted of various kinds of words. In these words, human words are fundamental and typical in both China and Korea. So we select body idioms as the study object and divide them into three parts. We will compare and analyze the differences of semantic expression and syntactic structure between Chinese body idiom and Korean body idiom. Then we will summarize some rules to make the study of idiom much easier, which may benefit the students in two courtries.First, we introduce the motivation and purpose of this study and describe the research situation of body idiom in China and Korea, expecially in the field of comparative research. Second, we analyze the definitions of idiom in Chinese and Korean academe, tell the differences among idiom, phrase and other kinds of locution, and establish the principles of the selection of linguistic materials. Third, we divide body idiom into three parts:the head, the limbs, the viscera. Furthermore, we divide every part into three sections according to the similarities and dissimilarities of the lexical meaning and strcuture characteristics of body idiom. In this chapter we mainly compare Chinese body idiom and Korean body idiom in the aspect of semantic expression. Fourth, we analyze the similarities and dissimilarities of the syntactic structure of Chiese and Korean idiom. Last, we summarize the content of the chapters above and give some suggestions to the Korean students who have difficuties in learning Chinese idiom.