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The sociolinguistic innovations in Korean: South and North Korean
By Sung-Ock Sohn
The Korean language has undergone many changes over the past five centuries. There has been a drastic
increase in English loanwords in the past few decades. In this talk I will discuss about the current trend
of mixed scripts in Korean and English, linguistic innovations, and different language policies between
South and North Korean.
About lecturer: Dr. Sung-Ock Sohn (Professor at the Dept of Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA)
has been teaching Korean language and linguistics at UCLA since 1988. She is the director of the UCLA
Language Alliance, which offers nearly 60 world languages every year. Her research area includes
discourse-functional linguistics, and language acquisition among others. She is the author/co-author of
seven books including Integrated Korean (University of Hawaii Press) and Tense and Aspect in Korean.
She has also published more than seventy articles on Korean language and linguistics. Her recent
publications include A Resource for Korean Grammar Instruction (2013).

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