Sang-Seok Yoon
List of John Benjamins publications for which Sang-Seok Yoon plays a role.
Articles
2024 L2 Korean learners’ pragmalinguistic features: Focusing on making requests in power‑asymmetrical situations Korean Linguistics 20:2, pp. 127–168 | Article
This study investigates the pragmalinguistic features of Korean as a Foreign Language (KFL) learners’ request speech acts in power-asymmetrical situations, focusing on interactions with social superiors. Through a discourse completion test (DCT), 31 KFL students and 12 Korean native speakers… read more
2015 Korean honorifics beyond politeness markers: Change of footing through shifting of speech style Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Im/politeness, Terkourafi, Marina (ed.), pp. 97–120 | Article
The purpose of this study is to show that Korean honorifics are not mere politeness markers or linguistic forms that speakers use passively, following social conventions. Rather, they are social indexes that can be used to construct one’s identity or change footing (Goffman 1981) in a given social… read more