Publications
Publication details [#48766]
Silva, David J. 2008. Missionary contributions toward the revaluation of Hangeul in late nineteenth-century Korea. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2008 (192) : 57–74.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter
Journal WWW
Annotation
In deciding to publish the bulk of their written materials in the more accessible but lower-status indigenous Korean script (as compared to the Chinese), the late nineteenth-century missionaries added to a revaluation of Hangeul as a fully legitimate written communication tool in a wider range of functional fields.