konglish
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Konglish presentation powerpoint file from Asian EFL Journal Certificate courseTRANSCRIPT
Konglish
Robert J. Dickey
Keimyung University
What is it?
What is it?
• Definitions?
• Examples?
•“Prescriptive” vs. “Descriptive”
• Language Purists
• Humpty Dumpty’s “Words mean what I want them to mean” (or something like that)
What is it? (Language)
Prescriptivist vs. Descriptivist
Prescriptions
• 17th Century
– “Dictionaries”
– Grammars
• “Gentry” of the age
Corpus Linguistics
• Let’s look at a body of “text” and figure out what the rules are (decode).
– Vocabulary
– Grammar
– Culture
– etc
Corpus Linguistics
• Linguistic Imperialism here?
– Which “sources” of language are accepted for the study?
• Geography
• Socio-economic status
• Written vs. Oral texts
• Authentic (live) vs. Planned (tv scripts?)
Some supposed “types” of Konglish
1. Koreanized pronunciation of English words (loanwords, borrowed words)
2. English words dropped into Korean grammatical structures (loanwords…)
★ Is this Interlanguage? Fossilization? Pidginization? Englishization?
Some supposed “types” …
3. Direct Loanwords (Cognates)
4. Hybrid Terms (binil-bongtu, long-dari)
5. Truncated (remocon)
6. Psuedo-Loanwords (manicure, Konglish)
7. Pure Fabrications (gagman, gasoline-girl)
8. Corruptions (fighting!)
Some supposed “types” …
9. False-Cognates (false friends) – words that appear to share a linguistic root (meaning, heritage) but in fact do not.
Within the same language
Within different languages
Examples…
Other Issues
• Substitution (replacing perfectly good Korean terms in popular usage)
Asian or Global Englishes?
• What if the same “non-standard” usage can be found across a number of countries?
• Many Konglishes came from Japan
Teacher Ignorance
• “That’s not English”
Teacher Ignorance
• “That’s not English” (oops!)
• Perfectly good English, just not where I come from!
Creativity in Language
• Limited to Native Speakers?
• Singaporean English and Singlish
– Singaporean Literature (Amy Tan)
• Similar with Ireland, India, Philippines, S.Africa, Nigeria, Jamaica…
• Same argument historically, USA, Australia, Canada…
