Using Korean a guide to contemporary usage

Like English, Korean has different styles of speaking and writing that reflect thegenre, the setting, and the audience. A chat in a gym with a friend employs quitedifferent words and constructions than a news report to a national TV audience.This chapter focuses on the use of sentence-final verb endings, whose selection issensitive to whether the genre is written or spoken, to whether the setting isformal or informal, and to how close the speaker feels to the hearer. (The verbform is also affected by the relationship between the speaker and the referent ofthe subject of the sentence, as we will see...
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Using Korean a guide to contemporary usage