A Contrast Of Korean ’(?)’ And Chinese ’耳(朵)’

Body vocabulary plays a very important role in language. Body vocabulary in Korean and Chinese, as simple daily-used vocabulary, has formed their own unique idioms with distinctive cultural connotations in constant historical and cultural development. In this paper, the body word "^/ear" respectively in the Korean and Chinese language is selected as the subject of comparison. Such a research is beneficial to deeply understand the body language in the two language systems and language learners to better understand and study two languages.This paper is divided into four parts.The first chapter is introduction. This chapter mainly describes the research objectives, selection of research subject, research methods, and systematically discusses the research status of theory applied in this paper.The second chapter is comparison of senses and relevant idioms in two countries. In this chapter, the literature research method is firstly applied to summarize and compare the senses of "(?)/ear" in dictionaries of two countries. And then the theory of comparative linguistics is used to conduct semantic comparison of related idioms of "(?)/ear" based on the analysis of meaning and form. According to whether the meaning is different or not, related idioms of "(?)/ear" are divided into five types which are analyzed with specific examples.The third chapter is the contrast semantic expansion. Semantic expansion is the key part of this paper.Metaphor and metonymy theory of Lakoff cognitive linguistics as the core, coupled with the achievements made by various scholars in the researches of semantic expansion of other body words, this chapter carries out a comparative study. The meanings of "(?)/ear" are divided into " semantic expansion dependent on metaphor" and " semantic expansion dependent on metonymy" in this paper. The case of metaphor then is divided into "existing metaphor" and "directional metaphor", while the case of metonymy is classified as "the part substituting the whole" and "the part substituting the part." Examples are employed to explain in detail.The fourth chapter is the conclusion, which is a comprehensive summary of the above chapters.