Korean Honorifics and Politeness in Second Language Learning

by Lucien Brown

This 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 the language competence of these speakers as such, this usage is linked to questions of the identity...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9027256101
• ISBN13: 9789027256102
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 311 Pages