There are many changes appeared with the Chinese degree adverbs as languages evolve over time, such as the emerging degree adverb ‘ju(巨)’ and the phrase structures like ‘巨多’, ‘巨好’, ‘巨痛’ are used in our daily communication commonly. This article discussed about the evolution mechanism of the Chinese emerging degree adverb ‘ju(巨)’s meaning in perspective of cognitive linguistics. First, we focused on the prototype meaning of ‘ju(巨)’ which is a adjective and the existing meaning of ‘ju(巨)’ which is used as a degree adverb. Second, we compared the image schema of the adjective ‘ju(巨)’ with the image schema of the degree adverb ‘ju(巨)’ and managed to find the differences between them. Then we studied the evolution mechanism of the degree adverb ‘ju(巨)’s meaning that is metaphor and made ‘ju(巨)’s metaphor mapping model. Third, we chose ‘巨多’, ‘巨好’ and ‘巨痛’ as examples by corpus-based study and used the conceptual blending theory to compared the conceptual blending spaces of them. Lastly, we found a general rule that can have reference significance to the study about the evolution of the other emerging degree adverbs, such as ‘狂’, ‘神’and so on. 저 자
본 연구는 일상 대화 말뭉치를 통해 <너무/되게/엄청 + 형용 사>의 의미적 선호를 분석하는 데 목적이 있다. 분석 결과, <너무+형 용사>에서는 [경험-심리]가 높은 선호도를 보였으며, <되게+형용사> 에서는 [경험-논리], <엄청+형용사>에서는 [사물-측량]이 높은 선호도 를 보였다. 한편, 세 정도부사에서 사물에 대한 추상적 묘사를 의미하 는 [사물-추상]의 의미 선호는 1건도 나타나지 않았다. 또한, 대부분의 의미 유형에서 <너무+형용사>의 의미 선호가 가장 많았으나 [사물- 형태]에서는 <되게+형용사>의 의미 선호가 많았다. 향후 정도부사의 피수식어로 동사나 ‘명사+이다’ 등의 의미적 선호 양상 분석이 이루어 지기를 바란다.