If I was given a research grant to conduct linguistic study of Korean and Korean culture. I would start by first making a list of where the language originated and then learning more about the historical figures and buildings to learn about the cultural background and history of Korea’s culture and then study more about traditions and evaluate slang and old manuscripts/poems to understand more or less the evolution of the korean language, Hangul. I would love to visit sites such as Gwanghwamun, where the Sejong statue is located. This would give me insight into how the language of Korea, Hangul, was created and a better idea of how the language was formed. I would also try to study and explain certain korean traditions and modern “slangs” that are used by the younger generation to explore how the language is changing and evolving to fit with the modern era in more of a syntactic and semantic way as I study and analyze the syntax of the development of Korean language very carefully. I would be able to see how the words and sentences came to be and how their meanings developed in Korean. I would also be able to see how they decided to arrange the words in the order (they use now) to make sentences in Korean, which I believe would be very neat. In addition, I would study some old folktales and folklore in order to get better accustomed to the language and see how the writing differed from back then to now. The different structural components we learned in class such as derivational and inflectional morphemes in the Korean language would appear in my studies as I looked at the origin of the language and intent for these words and how these morphemes came to be over time in Korea (morphology). In addition, I would be able to evaluate some satooris (cultural dialect) and see which dialects have died off as Korea has adapted Seoul Korean as the main Korean used by all and other provincial/cultural areas. Yet, area still keep their satooris like Busan (to provide an example) when speaking to one another in their area. This satoori study would more or less cover the idea of a “dead language” and phonetics as Busan satoori korean sounds very different to Seoul Korean and help me uncover how that satoori (cultural dialect) came to be.
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