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Dirty Korean
Ulysses Press 2010; US$ 10.00GET D!RTY Next time you're traveling or just chattin' in Korean with your friends, drop the textbook formality and bust out with expressions they never teach you in school, including: ?Cool slang ?Funny insults ?Explicit sex terms ?Raw swear words Dirty Korean teaches the casual expressions heard every day on the streets of... more...
Korean Honorifics and Politeness in Second Language Learning
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2011; US$ 149.00This book investigates the ways that advanced speakers of Korean as a second language perceive, use and learn the complexities of the Korean honorifics system. Despite their advanced proficiency in Korean, the study shows that the honorifics use of these speakers diverges in crucial ways from native speaker norms. It is argued that, rather than reflecting... more...
Intermediate Korean
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 42.95Intermediate Korean: A Grammar and Workbook comprises an accessible reference grammar and related exercises in a single volume. This workbook presents twenty-four individual grammar points, covering the core material which students would expect to encounter in their second year of learning Korean. Grammar points are followed by examples and exercises... more...
Korean
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1996; US$ 165.00Spoken by nearly 70 million people not only within the Korean Peninsula but also in five continents, Korean is one of a dozen major languages of the world. Yet outside Korea it is not as much studied as it should be, nor has it acquired commensurate international recognition. With its difficult sound system, rich word formation patterns, and complex... more...
Using Korean
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 34.00A guide to Korean vocabulary and grammar for post-beginners. more...
Modern Korean Literature
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 198.00The sixth book in Kegan Paul International's "Korean Culture Series", this volume contains thirty stories that have been selected on the basis of historical interest and literary worth, each representing a monumental moment in the history of Korean Literature. The ten stories in the first part share the common theme of the Korean experience of the... more...
Space in Tense
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2012; US$ 158.00This monograph explores the tense, aspect, mood, and evidentiality of Korean, which has a rich verbal inflectional system, and proposes novel treatments within the framework of compositional semantics. One of the major contributions is the demonstration that Korean has two types of deictic tense?simple deictic and spatial deictic tense. Spatial deictic... more...
Representations of Femininity in Contemporary South Korean Women's Literature
BRILL 2010; US$ 79.00This book discusses perceptions of ?femininity? in contemporary South Korea and the extent to which fictional representations in South Korean women?s fiction of the 1990s challenges the enduring association of the feminine with domesticity, docility and passivity. more...
Syntaxe des verbes de mouvement en coréen contemporain
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1985; US$ 180.00Literature and Film in Cold War South Korea
Columbia University Press 2012; US$ 54.99Korean writers and filmmakers crossed literary and visual cultures in multilayered ways under Japanese colonial rule (1910-1945). Taking advantage of new modes and media that emerged in the early twentieth century, these artists sought subtle strategies for representing the realities of colonialism and global modernity. Theodore Hughes begins by unpacking... more...









