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초록

The following study aims to investigate the principles and characteristics of newly-coined words with extreme expressions that were largely created vastly over the internet and have been used in recent years (2015~2018). According to grammatical particles, prefix derivatives (gae-, sship-, haek-, john- etc) and suffix derivatives are common (-chung, -nyeon, -nam etc), in terms of word types, there are a lot of native words, and there a lot of nouns for word classes. Regarding the meaning, most of them were about humans (figurative assessment of humans, conflict involving hatred between men and women, assessment of looks, emotional expressions of attitude and actions) and situations (positive situations, bad situations). Words with have negative meanings accounted for twice the number of those with positive meanings. Positive newly coined word meanings involved physical looks and something humorous, while negative newly coined words concerned looks hatred, unsolved disputes, and conflicts between men and women. There is also a strong characteristic in these newly-coined words that reflect the desire to continuously use stronger words that mean the same thing. A survey was conducted on how often these words are being used in daily life, and many had replied that they use newly-coined words that are easy to use rather than extreme words. It is predicted that newly-coined words that stress emotion or situations will settle into the language, where as unrealistic words that are not used often in daily life will disappear.

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