Korean Wave in World Englishes: The Linguistic Impact of Korea's Popular Culture - Paperback
by Brittany Khedun-Burgoine (Author), Jieun Kiaer (Author)
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.
Brittany Khedun-Burgoine is a DPhil student in Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford, UK. She has presented her research at several international conferences including the International Association for World Englishes, the Asian Association for Lexicography, and the Sociolinguistics Symposium. Her current research explores the global anglophone K-Pop fandom's creative use of Korean words to create new and individualised meanings.
Jieun Kiaer is a Professor of Korean Linguistics at the University of Oxford, UK. She is the Series Editor for Routledge Studies in East Asian Translation and publishes widely on lexical interaction between East Asian languages and Englishes. Her recent publications include The History of English Loanwords in Korean (2014), Translingual Words: An East Asian Lexical Encounter with English (Routledge 2018), and Delicious Words: East Asian Food Words in English (Routledge 2020). She is also acting as a Korean consultant for the Oxford English Dictionary (2021-).
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