Discussion Post# 10

[Xiwei Gu]

I will first come up with an interesting question for research purpose. I would conduct literature review on Hangul, identifying gaps or expectations previous research has pointed out. One thing I personally strongly interested in is how honorifics are used in daily contexts. In many East Asian languages, honorics are so important that they reflect large part of the culture itself. Elements that impact the usages include relationship between speakers, social hierarchy and the context. Phonetics would help a lot in the research. For example, different pronounciation of a word in Hangul would reflect different meanings. The same idea is employed in morphology.