Linguistic Image of Womanhood in South Korea

A Linguistic Image of Womanhood in South Korea examines the verbal and non-verbal techniques used by contemporary South Korean women to navigate their society.

About the author

Jieun Kiaer is Professor of Korean Linguistics at the University of Oxford. She publishes widely on East Asian linguistics, with particular emphasis on pragmatics. Her recent publications include Understanding Korean Film: A Cross-Cultural Perspective (with Loli Kim, 2021), More Than Polite (Routledge, forthcoming), and Pragmatic Particles: Findings from Asian Languages (2020).
Jiyoung Shin is Professor of Korean Linguistics at Korea University. Her research areas are phonetics and phonology, spoken grammar of Korean, and the role of prosody in subareas of linguistics. She is also interested in the ideology behind language. Shin has most recently published The Tug-of-War of the Language (2018) and The High Jump of Language (2021). She received the Presidential Commendation for her contributions to family policy in 2020.

Summary

A Linguistic Image of Womanhood in South Korea examines the verbal and non-verbal techniques used by contemporary South Korean women to navigate their society.

Product details

• Authors: Jieun Kiaer, Jieun Shin Kiaer, Kiaer Jieun, Jiyoung Shin, Shin Jiyoung
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.12.2022
• EAN: 9781032053721
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3205372-1
• No. of pages: 120
• Series: Routledge Studies in East Asian Translation
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Foreign-language dictionaries; Sociology, Linguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / General, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Korean, Literature: history & criticism, Language: reference & general, Language: reference and general, Gender studies, gender groups, Language teaching and learning, Literature: history and criticism, Language teaching & learning (other than ELT)