Sang-Seok Yoon
List of John Benjamins publications in which Sang-Seok Yoon is involved.
Articles
2025 Nurturing competent non-native Korean language teachers: Insights from a cross-linguistic and cross-cultural teacher education program Korean Linguistics 21:2, pp. 109–134 | Article
This study investigates the linguistic, cultural, and pedagogical challenges faced by non-native Korean as a Foreign language (NN-KFL) educators and evaluates a three-year retraining program designed to enhance their instructional competence and professional identity. Based on surveys and… read more
2024 L2 Korean learners’ pragmalinguistic features: Focusing on making requests in power‑asymmetrical situations Korean Linguistics 20:2, pp. 127–168 | Article
This study investigates the pragmalinguistic features of Korean as a Foreign Language (KFL) learners’ request speech acts in power-asymmetrical situations, focusing on interactions with social superiors. Through a discourse completion test (DCT), 31 KFL students and 12 Korean native speakers… read more
2015 Korean honorifics beyond politeness markers: Change of footing through shifting of speech style Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Im/politeness, Terkourafi, Marina (ed.), pp. 97–120 | Article
The purpose of this study is to show that Korean honorifics are not mere politeness markers or linguistic forms that speakers use passively, following social conventions. Rather, they are social indexes that can be used to construct one’s identity or change footing (Goffman 1981) in a given social… read more