Korean language in culture and society / edited by Ho-min Sohn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sohn, Ho-min.

Series:

KLEAR textbooks in Korean language

Language:

English

Korean

Subjects (All):

Korean language--Textbooks for foreign speakers--English.

Korean language.

Language and culture.

Korea (South).

Language and culture--Korea (South).

Genre:

Textbooks -- for foreign speakers.

Textbooks.

Textbooks -- for English speakers.

Penn Provenance:

Korea Society (New York, N.Y.) (donor)

Physical Description:

x, 292 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Honolulu, Hawaiʻi : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2006]

Contents:

The invention and use of the Korean alphabet / S. Robert Ramsey

"Standard language" and "cultured language" / Jaehoon Yeon

Korean in contact with Chinese / Ho-min Sohn

Korean in contact with Japanese / S. Robert Ramsey

Sound symbolism in Korean / Young-mee Yu Cho

Korean proverbs / Jeyseon Lee

Korean terms for calendar and horary signs, holidays, and seasons / Carol H. Schultz

Korean kinship terminology / Ross King

Slang in Korean / Duk-Soo Park

The structure and use of Korean honorifics / Miho Choo

Usage of Korean address and reference terms / Haejin Elizabeth Koh

Phatic expressions in Korean / Duk-Soo Park

Politeness in conversation in Korean : the use of -nŭnde / Yong-Yae Park

Korean cultural values in request behaviors / Andrew S. Byon

Gender differences in Korean speech / Young-A Cho

Gender differences in Korean politeness strategies / Hye-Sook Wang

Advertisements in Korean / Young-A Cho and Douglas Ling

The television ad as a reflection of culture : the case of Korea, Japan, and the United States / Susan Strauss

Linguistic structures of Korean / Sungdai Cho

Korean narrative structure : evidence from two popular fables / Shin Ja J. Hwang

Dialectal variation in Korean / Ross King.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0824826949

9780824826949

OCLC:

62860874