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    Inductive Research, Multimodality and Critical Theory

    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume demonstrates how inductive research into speakers’ metapragmatic knowledge offers a path for researching what politeness means for language users and how this reshapes politeness theory. Through bottom-up analysis of interview data collected from Korean speakers from two generations, the authors map out a participant-oriented perspective on politeness and use these findings to build ... Read more

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    Strategies to Avoid Common Errors

    Series series Speed up your Language Skills
    Word order, honorifics, terms of addresses and idiomatic expressions are just some of the areas that cause confusion for students of Korean. Learning how to avoid the common errors that arise repeatedly in these areas is an essential step in successful language learning.Speed Up Your Korean is a unique and innovative resource that identifies and explains these errors, enabling students to learn ... Read more

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  • Toxic Language in East Asia

    Linguistic Analysis of Aggression and Conflict

    Edited by Lucien Brown, Xi Chen ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Asia Series
    This book explores examples of ‘toxic language’, the linguistic manifestations of societal conflicts and aggressions, that have arisen in Asian contexts.By highlighting toxic language, a panoramic concept borrowed from computational linguistics, this book assesses hate speech, harassment, discrimination, cyberbullying, sarcasm, irony, and other kinds of offensive, impolite, and harmful language ... Read more

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  • Korean

    A Comprehensive Grammar

    Series series Routledge Comprehensive Grammars
    Korean: A Comprehensive Grammar is a reference to Korean grammar, and presents a thorough overview of the language, concentrating on the real patterns of use in modern Korean.The book moves from the alphabet and pronunciation through morphology and word classes to a detailed analysis of sentence structures and semantic features such as aspect, tense, speech styles and negation.Updated and revised, ... Read more

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  • The Handbook of Korean Linguistics

    Edited by Lucien Brown, Jaehoon Yeon ...
    Series series Wiley Handbooks in Linguistics
    The Handbook of Korean Linguistics presents state-of-the-art overviews of the linguistic research on the Korean language.• Structured to allow a range of theoretical perspectives in addressing linguistic phenomena• Includes chapters on Old Korean and Middle Korean, present-day language policies in North and South Korea, social aspects of Korean as a heritage language, and honorifics• Indispensable ... Read more

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