UPC: 9780824826949 | Klear Textbooks in Korean Language: Korean Language in Culture and Society (Series #19) (Paperback)

UPC lookup results for: 9780824826949 | Klear Textbooks in Korean Language: Korean Language in Culture and Society (Series #19) (Paperback)

Intended as a companion to the popular KLEAR Textbooks in Korean Language series and designed and edited by a leading Korean linguist this is the first volume of its kind to treat specifically the critical role of language in Korean culture and society. An introductory chapter provides the framework of the volume defining language culture and society and their interrelatedness and presenting an overview of the Korean language vis-à-vis its culture and society from evolutionary and dynamic perspectives. Early on contributors examine the invention and use of the Korean alphabet South Korea s standard language vs. North Korea s cultured language and Korean in contact with Chinese and Japanese. Several topics representative of Korean socio-cultural vocabulary (sound symbolic words proverbs calendar-related terms kinship terms slang expressions) are discussed followed by a consideration of Korean honorifics and other related issues. Two chapters on Korean media one on advertisements and the other a comparative analysis of television ads in Korea Japan and the U.S. follow. Finally contributors look at salient features of the language narrative structure and dialectal variation. All chapters are accompanied by a set of student questions and a useful bibliography. A beginning level of proficiency in Korean is sufficient to digest the Korean examples with facility making this volume accessible to a wide range of students. Contributors: Andrew S. Byon Sungdai Cho Young-A Cho Young-mee Y. Cho Miho Choo Shin Ja J. Hwang Ross King Haejin Elizabeth Koh Jeyseon Lee Douglas Ling Duk-Soo Park Yong-Yae Park S. Robert Ramsey Carol Schulz Ho-min Sohn Susan Strauss Hye-Sook Wang Jaehoon Yeon.