LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY IN KOREA
Focus on fundamental knowledge of sociolinguistics, language variations, varieties and codes of inherent sociality cultural implements. With substantial differences between eastern and Western cultures, students will study linguistic behavior and social groups, social class, effects of gender, address and reference terms, politeness strategies and style of language form used both in English and Korean in comparative study. Materials arranged to explain and evaluate the interaction of language, society and culture, the process of how people use language to construct social meaning and how those processes influence linguistic structure as well as cross-cultural communication.