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Author:

Ko, Chong-sŏk, 1959- author.

Title:

Infected Korean language, purity versus hybridity : from the sinographic cosmopolis to Japanese colonialism to global English / Koh Jongsok ; translated with a critical introduction by Ross King.

Publisher:

Cambria Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

viii, 310 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Korean language--Usage.
Korean language--Social aspects.
Korean language--Foreign elements.

Other Authors:

King, Julian Ross Paul, translator.

Other Titles:

Kamyŏmdoen ŏnŏ English

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

A clumsy confession of love : In lieu of a preface -- A footnote to my confession infected language, infected literature : one perspective on Korea-phone literature -- Contamination, infiltration, hybridity : a swipe at purism in Korean -- We are all greeks : on the English-as-official-language debate -- Disposable legacy, indispensable heritage : thoughts on Chinese characters -- France : from pullans pmnans to prangs -- Random thoughts on Nuije Ka -- On the peripheries of sgyng pylgok : song of the western capital.

Series:

Cambria sinophone world series

ISBN:

1604978716 (alk. paper)
9781604978711 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)863127630

LCCN:

2013045103

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)