Infected Korean Language, Purity Versus Hybridity: From the Sinographic Cosmopolis to Japanese Colonialism to Global English

by Jongsok Koh, Chong-Sok Ko, , et al.

This book is in the Cambria Sinophone World Series (General Editor: Victor H. Mair). Although numerous book-length studies of language and modernity in China and Japan can be found even in English, little has been written in any language on the question of linguistic modernity in Korea. Infected Korean Language, Purity Versus Hybridity by noted journalist and writer Koh Jongsok is a collection of critical essays about Korean language and writing situated...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1604978716
• ISBN13: 9781604978711
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Cambria Press
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"