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
Language as a subject
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.