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Cultural Syllabus for Korean as a Foreign Language
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- Issue Date
- 2005
- Publisher
- 서울대학교 언어교육원
- Citation
- 어학연구, Vol.41 No.1, pp. 247-259
- Keywords
- Cultural Syllabus ; Culture Teaching ; Cultural Asides ; Culture Capsule ; Culture Clusters ; Culture Assimilators
- Abstract
- This paper's contribution to the literature of Linguistìcs consists primarily of the borrowing of useful analytical concepts such as critìcal mass' (from Physics), swìtching costs' and bandwagon effects' (both
from Economics), and, for the first time, combining and adapting them to develop a new critical mass theory for linguistic analysis. In this context, critical mass refers to the minimum number of users of a foreign word that are required in order for the foreign word to be accepted as a loan word in such users' native language. The following phenomena, including their interactions with each other, are critìcal to the process of forming critical mass for loan word acceptance: (1) general bandwagon effect, (2) fad bandwagon effect, (3) switching costs, and (4) early-mover advantage.
- ISSN
- 0254-4474
- Language
- English
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