Korean Grammar: A Systemic Functional Approach

Description

Using the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), this pioneering book provides the first comprehensive account of Korean grammar, building foundations for an engagement with Korean texts across a range of spoken and written registers and genres. It treats grammar as a meaning-making resource, comprising experiential resources for construing reality, interpersonal resources for enacting social relations, textual resources for composing coherent discourse, and logical resources for linking clauses. It deals not only with clause systems and structures but also focuses on their realisation as groups and phrases (and clause rank particles), and the realisation of these groups and phrases in words (including clitics and relevant suffixation). Its concluding chapter demonstrates how this grammar can be applied - for teaching Korean as a foreign language and for translation and interpreting studies. This book is essential reading for scholars and students of Asian languages and linguistics and functional approaches to grammar description.

Mira Kim is Associate Professor of Translation and Interpreting Studies at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. Over two decades, she has explored her passion for Translation Studies, drawing on Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), and has provided SFL-inspired text analysis tools for translators-to-be. Notable publications include Systemic Functional Linguistics and Translation Studies (2021). J. R. Martin is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney. He is best known for his work on discourse analysis, appraisal and genre and has a longstanding concern with language description. In April 2014 Shanghai Jiao Tong University opened its Martin Centre for Appliable Linguistics, appointing Professor Martin as Director. Gi-Hyun Shin is Senior Lecturer at University of New South Wales, Sydney, and is a pioneer in the field of Korean language education in Australia. He has developed a series of Korean language textbooks and numerous Korean teaching and learning aids for adult learners. Gyung Hee Choi is Assistant Professor at Pyeongtaek University. She trained as a professional translator and interpreter, and has worked in the T&I field for over two decades. This experience and her studies in SFL have led her to focus her research on analysis of translation texts using SFL.