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Korean Wave in World Englishes: The Linguistic Impact of Korea's Popular Culture

Korean Wave in World Englishes: The Linguistic Impact of Korea's Popular Culture

Kiaer, Jieun
Khedun-Burgoine, Brittany

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in East Asian Translation

Foreign Language GeneralEtymology

ISBN10: 0367191016
ISBN13: 9780367191016
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 16 2022
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book examines the linguistic impact of the Korean Wave on World Englishes, demonstrating that the K-Wave is not only a phenomenon of popular culture, but also language.

The Korean Wave is a neologism that was coined during the 1990s that includes K-pop, K-dramas, K-film, K-food, and K-beauty, and in recent years it has peaked in global popularity. This book intends to show how social media phenomena have facilitated the growth of Korea's cultural influence globally and enabled a number of Korean origin words to settle in varieties of Englishes. This in turn has globalised Korean origin words and revolutionised the English language through an active and collaborative process of lexical migration. Korean origin words such as oppa (older brother) are no longer bound solely to Korean-speaking contexts. The study focuses primarily on media content, particularly social media, corroborated by case studies to examine how linguistic innovation has been engendered by the Korean Wave.

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