The Verbal Art of Borrowing

Analysis of English Borrowing in Korean Pop Songs

Bibliographic Data

ID20498797
AuthorsC Bruce Lawrence (Ajou University, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume13
Issue2
Pages42-63
Publication date2010-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAsian Englishes (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1348-8678 • E-ISSN: 2331-2548
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13488678.2010.10801282
OpenAlexW1966841461
LanguageEN
Citations received14
References cited10

Although English is being used all over the planet, its hegemony in Korea is being resisted in the area of Korean Pop songs by incorporating it then transforming it to fit Korean phonetic, syntactic and cultural patterns. This paper examines where English is being borrowed in a quantitative analysis, why English is being borrowed in a functional analysis, and how English is being borrowed in an analysis of ‘the verbal art of borrowing.’ Where English is being borrowed is heavily in the choruses, intros and titles of songs, but only lightly in the verses. Why it is being borrowed is to talk about sex, love, or for rhythmic vocables. It is also being used as a language of resistance against conservative Korean values. How it is being borrowed is through simple, repetitious and sometimes grammatically incorrect utterances which have been transformed to fit exactly into syntactic and phonetic parallelism described in studies of ethnopoetics. These transformations are verbal art at its finest

Art · Epistemology · Hegemony · Linguistics · Literature · Political science · Politics · Sociology · History · Law · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Psychology · Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism

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