The Cambridge Handbook of Korean Linguistics

A state-of-the-art survey of current key research in Korean linguistics, by a team of world-renowned experts in the field.

Sungdai Cho (Edited by), John Whitman (Edited by)

9781108418911, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 25 August 2022

800 pages
25 x 17.3 x 5.6 cm, 1.51 kg

The 'Korean wave' in music and film and Korea's rise to become the twelfth economic power in the world have boosted the world-wide popularity of Korean language study. The linguistic study of Korean, with its rich syntactic and phonological structure, complex writing system, and unique socio-historical context, is now a rapidly growing research area. Contributions from internationally renowned experts on the language provide a state-of-the-art overview of key current research in Korean language and linguistics. Chapters are divided into five thematic areas: phonetics and phonology, morphology and syntax, semantics and pragmatics, sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics, and language pedagogy. The Handbook includes cross-linguistic data to illuminate the features of Korean, and examples in Korean script, making it suitable for advanced students and researchers with or without prior knowledge of Korean linguistics. It is an essential resource for students and researchers wishing to explore the exciting and rapidly moving field of Korean linguistics.

Part I. Korean Overview: 1. Introduction Sungdai Cho and John Whitman
2. Phonology: An Overview Young-Key Kim-Renaud
3. Overview of Chapters on Syntax James Hye-Suk Yoon
4. On the Centrality of Korean in Language Contacts in Northeast Asia Alexander Vovin
5. Politeness Strategies in Korean Sungdai Cho
6. Korean Kugy?l Jae-young Chung and John Whitman
Part II. Phonetics and Phonology: 7. Vowel Harmony Seongyeon Ko
8. The Phonology and Phonetics of Korean Stop Laryngeal Contrasts Yoonjung Kang, Jessamyn Schertz and Sungwoo Han
9. The Phonetic-Prosody Interface and Prosodic Strengthening in Korean Taehong Cho
10. Constituent Structure and Sentence Phonology of Korean Seunghun J. Lee
11. Effects of Linguistic Experience on the Perception of Korean Stops Sang Yee Cheon
Part III. Morphology and Syntax: 12. Right-Dislocation in Korean: An Overview Heejeong Ko
13. Experimental Insights on the Grammar of Korean Anaphors Chung-hye Han
14. Person-Denoting Nominals: Interpretations and Structures Shin-Sook Kim and Peter Sells
15. Lexical Nominalizations in Korean James Hye-Suk Yoon
16. The Processing of a Long-Distance Dependency in Korean: An Overview Nayoung Kwon
Part IV. Semantics and Pragmatics: 17. Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity in Korean Grammar Ho-min Sohn
18. Discourse Studies in Korean Haeyeon Kim
19. Metaphoric and Metonymic Patterns with the Body-Part Term Nwun 'Eye(s)' in Korean Ebru Türker
20. Wh-indefinites Jiwon Yun
21. 'Expletive' Negation in Korean Suwon Yoon
22. Case Stacking in Korean: Argument Structure or Information Structure? EunHee Lee
Part V. Sociolinguistics and Psycholinguistics: 23. Grammaticalization in Korean Seongha Rhee
24. Performing Gender in Korean: Language, Gender, and Social Change Minju Kim
25. Jejueo: Korea's Other Language William O'Grady, Changyong Yang and Sejung Yang
Part VI. Language Pedagogy: 26. Genre-Based Approach to Korean Language Teaching: A Curriculum Application Hye-Sook Wang
27. Towards Integrated Performance Assessment Sahie Kang
28. Interactional Competence in Korean Language Mary Shin Kim
29. From Bilingual Speakers to Korean Heritage Language Learners Hi-Sun Kim
30. Language Policy and Its Effect in South Korea Hyunsik Min.

Subject Areas: Black & Asian studies [JFSL3], Psycholinguistics [CFD], Sociolinguistics [CFB]