Konglish

For the English language as used in Hong Kong, see Hong Kong English.

Konglish (Korean: 콩글리시; RR: konggeullisi; [kʰoŋ.ɡɯl.li.ɕi]), more formally Korean-style English (Korean: 한국어식 영어; Hanja: 韓國語式英語; RR: hangugeo-sik yeongeo; [han.ɡu.ɡʌ.ɕik̚ jʌŋ.ʌ]) comprises English and other foreign language loanwords that have been appropriated into Korean,[1] and includes many that are used in ways that are not readily understandable to native English speakers.[2][3] A common example is the Korean term "hand phone" for the English "mobile phone".[4] Konglish also has direct English loanwords, mistranslations from English to Korean, or pseudo-English words coined in Japanese that came to Korean usage.[1][3] Sociolinguistically, South Koreans use English to denote luxury, youth, sophistication, and modernity.[5]

The term is a portmanteau of the names of the two languages and was first recorded earliest in 1975. Other less common terms include: Korlish (recorded from 1988), Korenglish (1992), Korglish (2000) and Kinglish (2000).[6] The use of Konglish is widespread in South Korea as a result of U.S. cultural influence, but it is not familiar to North Koreans.[7]

  1. ^ a b Ahn, Hyejeong (2017). Attitudes to World Englishes: Implications for Teaching English in South Korea. Taylor & Francis. pp. 30–33. ISBN 978-1315394299.
  2. ^ Rhodes, Margaret (29 September 2016). "The Rise of Konglish, the Korean-English Hybrid That's Both Beautiful and Perilous". WIRED. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
  3. ^ a b Hadikin, Glenn (2014). Korean English: A corpus-driven study of a new English. John Benjamins Publishing Company. pp. 8–12. ISBN 978-9027269942.
  4. ^ Suk, Gee-hyun (22 July 2015). "'Konglish' floods into apartment brand names". The Korea Herald. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
  5. ^ Lawrence, Bruce (2012). "The Korean English linguistic landscape". World Englishes. 31: 70–92. doi:10.1111/j.1467-971x.2011.01741.x.
  6. ^ Lambert, James. 2018. A multitude of 'lishes': The nomenclature of hybridity. English World-wide, 39(1): 27. DOI: 10.1075/eww.38.3.04lam
  7. ^ Kim, Hyung-Jin (25 March 2017). "After 70 years of division, North and South Koreans losing shared language". The Globe and Mail. Associated Press. Retrieved 13 January 2018.