[PDF] A History Of The Korean Language eBook

Author : Ki-Moon Lee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 44,10 MB
Release : 2011-03-03
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1139494481

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A History of the Korean Language is the first book on the subject ever published in English. It traces the origin, formation, and various historical stages through which the language has passed, from Old Korean through to the present day. Each chapter begins with an account of the historical and cultural background. A comprehensive list of the literature of each period is then provided and the textual record described, along with the script or scripts used to write it. Finally, each stage of the language is analyzed, offering new details supplementing what is known about its phonology, morphology, syntax, and lexicon. The extraordinary alphabetic materials of the 15th and 16th centuries are given special attention, and are used to shed light on earlier, pre-alphabetic periods.

Author : Iksop Lee
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 13,96 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780791448311

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An accessible, comprehensive source of information on the Korean language--its structure and history to its cultural and sociological setting.

Author : Young-Key Kim-Renaud
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 16,37 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :

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A collection of ten essays which cover topics such as: arguments for King Sejong's personal creation of the script; the Asian and domestic linguistic and socio-cultural background to its creation; the principles under which each symbol was created; and the structure of phonological units.

Author : Samuel Elmo Martin
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 1286 pages
File Size : 24,4 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780824828189

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This title explains the use of Japanese words such as wa, ga and mo looking at the rules and meanings of words in their literary forms.

Author : Jae Jung Song
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 23,60 MB
Release : 2006-02
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1134335903

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Provides a good overview of the Korean language in a readable way, without neglecting any important structural aspects of the language.

Author : Ho-min Sohn
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 33,51 MB
Release : 2005-12-31
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780824826949

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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.

Author : Ki-baik Lee
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 49,39 MB
Release : 1988-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0674255267

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The first English-language history of Korea to appear in more than a decade, this translation offers Western readers a distillation of the latest and best scholarship on Korean history and culture from the earliest times to the student revolution of 1960. The most widely read and respected general history, A New History of Korea (Han’guksa sillon) was first published in 1961 and has undergone two major revisions and updatings. Translated twice into Japanese and currently being translated into Chinese as well, Ki-baik Lee’s work presents a new periodization of his country’s history, based on a fresh analysis of the changing composition of the leadership elite. The book is noteworthy, too, for its full and integrated discussion of major currents in Korea’s cultural history. The translation, three years in preparation, has been done by specialists in the field.

Author : Ho-min Sohn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 17,35 MB
Release : 2019-08-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1000005429

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This work, first published in 1994, provides a framework which covers the major aspects of contemporary standard Korean and allows cross-language comparisons. It offers a wide-ranging and comprehensive grammatical description of Korean, covering syntax, morphology, phonology, ideophone/interjections and lexicon.

Author : Kyubyong Park
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 25,85 MB
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1462910300

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My First Book of Korean Words is a beautifully illustrated book that introduces young children to Korean language and culture through everyday words. The words profiled in this book are all commonly used in the Korean language and are both informative and fun for English-speaking children to learn. The goals of My First Book of Korean Words are multiple: to familiarize children with the sounds and structure of Korean speech, to introduce core elements of Korean culture, to illustrate the ways in which languages differ in their treatment of everyday sounds and to show how, through cultural importation, a single word can be shared between languages. Both teachers and parents will welcome the book's cultural and linguistic notes, and appreciate how the book is organized in a familiar ABC structure. Each word is presented in Hangeul, as well as in its Romanized form. With the help of this book, we hope more children (and adults) will soon be a part of the nearly 80 million people worldwide that speak Korean!