Modern Korean Digraphia

Metanarration and National Identity, 1894 - 1972

William J. Strnad

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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon
29 April 2024

Sociolinguistics

William Strnad traces the formation and development of modern Korean digraphia during the years 1894–1972, including a description and analysis of the historical discourse related to Korean phonetic script and Chinese characters.

Modern Korean digraphia was contextualized and altered amid the global emancipation and speculative metanarratives of modernity, and the national metanarratives of nationalism and modernization. These constructions were shaped by the civilization discourse of the nineteenth century, imperialism, the experience of Japanese occupation, and after liberation, the Cold War politics of Marxist utopianism in North Korea and bourgeois progressivism in South Korea. By 1972, the narrative closure of the global and national metanarratives of modernity in both Koreas provided the socio-political space for the limited reversal of Korean script exclusivity, which had earlier been implemented in the North and South.

By: William J. Strnad
Imprint: ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon
Country of Publication: Germany
Dimensions: Height: 21mm, Width: 15mm,
Weight: 772g
ISBN: 9783838217932
ISBN 10: 3838217934
Pages: 592
Publication Date: 29 April 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dr William Strnad received an MA in Korean Studies from Yonsei University (Seoul, Republic of Korea) in 2003 and a PhD in Korean Linguistics from Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznań, Poland) in 2021. He served in the field of human intelligence (HUMINT) for two decades, and since 2004 he has been a faculty member at Adam Mickiewicz University. He has taught subjects in the humanities and social sciences, including courses in modern Korean history, Chinese characters (for Korean), and Korean nationalism. He currently is a Senior Lecturer in the Korean Philology Department, Faculty of Ethnolinguistics, Adam Mickiewicz University. Dr Strnad has published articles in the following publications: Scripta Neophilologica Posnaniensia, Meandry Koreanistyki, Investigationes Linguisticae, Proceedings of the CEESOK International Conference on Korean Studies, and the International Journal of Korean Humanities and Social Sciences.

Reviews for Modern Korean Digraphia: Metanarration and National Identity, 1894 - 1972

Dr. Strnad's thematically original and pioneering synthesis examines the complex graphemic system that is modern Korean digraphia. This sociolinguistic monograph frames the phenomenon of Korean script into a separate and distinct sphere of inquiry and includes topics such as education, science, culture, society, politics, language policy, and finally, linguistic perceptions and contexts. The thesis that Korean digraphia was shaped by various metanarratives, that is, hierarchical currents of social and ideological thought, is coherent and substantively convincing.--Prof Dr hab. Romuald Huszcza, Jagiellonian University and University of Warsaw This is a significant book in the field of Korean sociolinguistics. The grand narratives and national identity of modern Koreans constitute a central place in the research paradigm through which Dr. Strnad has delivered a thorough, probing and extensive interdisciplinary analysis of the formation of modern Korean digraphia in the years 1894-1972. Correlating the development of the Korean digraphic system with existing scholarship in sociology, history, culture, economics, and politics, this ground-breaking work brings to light the variety of connections between the reality of script and extra-linguistic realities.--Prof Dr hab. Jerzy Bańczerowski, Foreign Language College in Poznań