- Overview
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The book intends to contribute to lexis learnig by showing to Korean learners and teachers the collocation or the relationship of preceding and follwoing words displayed in corpus. It is appropriate for Korean learners at intermediate or higher level.
- Book Intro
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This book is a compilation of the results of a four year project conducted by professor Kim Ha-soo's research team at the Department of Korean Language and Literature at Yonsei University with funds from the National Research Foundation of Korea. It's the first Korean collocation dictionary published in Korea. The book intends to contribute to lexis learnig by showing to Korean learners and teachers the collocation or the relationship of preceding and follwoing words displayed in corpus. This dictionary describes in detail the practical aspect, for example how a word functions or how it is used in a sentence, not restrained to parts of speech and language unit. It is appropriate for Korean learners at intermediate or higher level.
This dictionary's headwords are based on the basic Korean vocabulary, in particular selected from high-frequency vocabulary words, such as those included in textbooks of Korean language education institutes and research results.
- About the Author
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Kim Hasoo
Kim Ha-Soo (M) graduated from Yonsei University with a major in Korean Language and Literature and received his PhD in language and literature from the University Bochum (RUB), Germany. Since his appointment as professor of Korean Language and Literature at Yonsei University in 1989, he has served as the Director of Language Policies, the National Institute of Korean Language, and President of the Sociolinguistic Society of Korea and the Korean Association for Lexicography. From 2008 to 2013, he was the Director at the Yonsei Institute of Language and Information Studies. He has been focused on uncovering what we actually do through languae acts, and what social implication it has, not just payig attention to language rules. From this point of view, he has involved theoretically and practically in, for example, "linguistic norms and policies, North and South language problems, forming a national language, and Korean language education for foreigners."
