Creative adoption

Trends in Anglicisms in Korea

Bibliographic Data

ID20358057
AuthorsEun-Young Julia Kim (0000-0002-2527-7845, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume28
Issue2
Pages15-17
Publication date2012-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnglish Today (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0266-0784 • E-ISSN: 1474-0567
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0266078412000107
OpenAlexW2124360712
LanguageEN
Citations received12

Today many people associate Korea with large corporations such as Samsung, Hyundai, or LG. As remarkable as its rapid technological advancement is the country's growing fervor for learning English. Compared with other countries, Korea is rather distinctive in remaining monocultural in its overall demographic composition. Behind the seemingly quiet, monolingual and monocultural façade is a vibrant force that drives its people toward an Anglophone world. Once colonized by Japan, Korea was heavily influenced by the Japanese language and culture. It is no coincidence that the Korean lexicon contains many words of English origin (Anglicisms) that are also found in Japanese. Examples include hotchkiss (‘stapler’), ball pen (‘ballpoint pen’), pama (‘perm’), manicure (‘nail polish’), salaryman (‘salaried man’), and mass com (from ‘mass communication’, used for ‘media’). These represent only a handful of examples among numerous Anglicized words that entered the Korean language during the Japanese colonization which spanned a period of thirty-six years

Geography · Korean language · Lexicon · Linguistics · Political science · History · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Multilingual Education and Policy · Second Language Learning and Teaching

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