Iksoo Kwon
List of John Benjamins publications for which Iksoo Kwon plays a role.
2023 Meaning extensions of internet memes: A case study of the ‘If 2020 was a(n) X’ meme Applying Embodied Cognition and Cognitive Linguistics to language teaching, Della Putta, Paolo and Ferran Suñer (eds.), pp. 178–209 | Article
This paper explores the constructional properties of internet memes by conducting a case study of If 2020 was a(n) X (IYWX) memes within the framework of Viewpoint Spaces (Dancygier & Vandelanotte, 2017). By looking into constructional properties and viewpoint interactions at multiple conceptual… read more
2023 The COVID-19 pandemic and changing meanings of flatten the curve: A cognitive semantic approach Bringing Figurative Language into Real L2 Classrooms: The challenges of empirical testing, Piquer-Píriz, Ana M. and Reyes Llopis-García (eds.), pp. 505–540 | Article
This paper conducts a comparative analysis of the meanings of the phrase flatten the curve before and after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using data from two corpora, the iWeb Corpus and the Coronavirus Corpus, it focuses on semantic frames (Fillmore, 1985) and frame metonymy (Dancygier… read more
2021 Between commitment and certainty: A cognitive semantic approach to an I promise construction in English Review of Cognitive Linguistics 19:1, pp. 51–79 | Article
In accord with Verhagen’s (1996) insights regarding epistemic uses of the predicator promise (e.g., Tomorrow promises to be a fine day), this paper identifies another type of these epistemic uses. It focuses on constructional cues in complex-clause utterances of the form I promise X: whether or… read more
2020 The Korean hortative construction revisited: Prototypical and extended functions Pragmatics 30:3, pp. 351–380 | Article
This paper revisits the hortative -ca construction in Korean from a usage-based perspective, examining its functions in natural interactional spoken data The examination of the actual occurrence of -ca reveals its various functions: -ca indicates that the performer of the focal-event encoded in… read more
2019 Conceptual metaphors and performativity in the Sunshine Policy Corpus Approaches to Language, Thought and Communication, Lu, Wei-lun, Naděžda Kudrnáčová and Laura A. Janda (eds.), pp. 275–294 | Article
This paper explores the roles of the cognitive mechanisms of conceptual metaphor and performativity in political policy by conducting a case study on the South Korean government’s Sunshine Policy toward North Korea from 1998 to 2008. This study contends that the policy is metaphorically… read more
2012 The Korean evidential marker -te- revisited: Its semantic constraints and distancing effects in Mental Spaces Theory Constructions and Frames 4:2, pp. 152–185 | Article
Since the Korean firsthand evidential marker -te- shows unexpected semantics such as implicating psychological distance and restricted deictic accessibility as well as standard evidential semantics, Korean linguists have disagreed considerably about the analysis of the marker, each citing evidence… read more