[KS] Monash Beyond Borders Korean Studies Seminar Series Seminar 1 [KS List]

[Sandy Nguyen]

Dear KS list members, please note the following event. You can attend in
person or remotely. If attending remotely please register using the Google
form and a ZOOM link will be sent to you one day prior to the seminar. Hope
to see you there.

All the best,
Sandy

*Monash University Korean Studies Research Hub (MUKSRH) presents:*



*Monash Beyond Borders Korean Studies Seminar Series 2024*



*Seminar 1*

'The ‘Nation of Propriety in the East’: A Naturalized History of Polite
Language in Korea'

Dr Eunseon Kim (The Australian National University)





Monash University (Clayton Campus)

Room G01 LTB (Learning & Teaching Building)

19 Ancora Imparo Wy, Clayton VIC 3168

12th April 2pm (AEST)





*Bio*
Eunseon Kim is Lecturer and Convenor of the Korean Language Program in the
School of Culture, History and Language at the Australian National
University. Her research interests include language ideology, the history
of linguistic thought, and metalinguistic discourses, with a particular
emphasis on Korean linguistic etiquette. She explores how language users
shape the cultural values of language in society in order to project
identity, to establish group membership, and to engage with political
issues. She works on a variety of issues in Korean history and culture
through language-related topics, including language policy and education,
linguistic nationalism, linguistic variations, and linguistic identity.



*Abstract*

Korean honorifics system is one of the salient cultural categories of
communication that comes to be seen as a ‘linguistic emblem’ (Harkness
2015) of Korean society and culture often known as the epithet ‘Nation of
Propriety in the East’ (Tongbang yeŭi chi kuk 東方禮儀之國). Native Koreans often
believe that the complex linguistic practice of politeness embodies or
emanates from their culture of respecting superiors in age or status. How
did a set of linguistic repertoires in Korean gain social significance as
an icon of ethno-national culture? In this talk, I explore the genealogy of
representations of the saturated cultural images of signs within a network
of diverse practices. Drawing on the semiotic analysis of language
ideology, I analyse the ways in which images and ideas about Korean
honorifics and honorification acquire social meanings and become linguistic
markers of ‘Koreanness.’ I argue that the culture-specific models of
modern-day Korean linguistic politeness are an ideological artifact
peculiar to the history of modernising Korea. This study examines a variety
of discursive social practices ranging from premodern conduct manuals to
linguistic studies and popular books on ‘proper’ language use. The folk and
professional meta-linguistic/-pragmatic discourses rationalise how
linguistic practices of politeness should work and what they mean in Korean
society and culture.



Register here <https://forms.gle/rBuZ3xC4rziArbCf6> for a ZOOM link.

Please contact Monash University Korean Studies Research Hub Coordinator
Ms Sandy Nguyen for further details.

Sandy.Nguyen1 at monash.edu <Sandy.nguyen1 at monash.edu>

Kind Regards,

Sandy Nguyen

*MUKSRH Coordinator*

Website: Monash Korean Studies Research Hub
<https://www.monash.edu/arts/languages-literatures-cultures-linguistics/korean-studies-research-hub>

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