"Teaching Korean Honorifics"
By Rhoades-Ko
Abstract
Learning Korean honorific expressions may be one of the hardest challenges for our students, since English does not have grammatical features, but has some sociolinguistic devices to show respect, like circumlocution or modals. However, Korean honorific expressions are not only controlled by such speech styles and lexical items, but also by morphological and syntactic rules, which requires good understanding of Korean socio-cultural system and values to use them properly. The syntactic and morphological honorific features form essential parts of a predicate, which is, again, essential to form a sentence. I suggest we should introduce Korean honorifics as early as possible.
Learning Korean honorific expressions may be one of the hardest challenges for our students, since English does not have grammatical features, but has some sociolinguistic devices to show respect, like circumlocution or modals. However, Korean honorific expressions are not only controlled by such speech styles and lexical items, but also by morphological and syntactic rules, which requires good understanding of Korean socio-cultural system and values to use them properly. The syntactic and morphological honorific features form essential parts of a predicate, which is, again, essential to form a sentence. I suggest we should introduce Korean honorifics as early as possible.
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