[LECTURE]IUC at SKKU 2015 Winter Special Lecture
- AEAS
- Hit832
- 2015-12-09
<IUC at SKKU 2015 Winter Special Lecture>
▣ Time: December 15 Tue. 10 - 12 am.
▣ Venue: 1st Seminar Room, 6th Fl. 600th Anniversary Hall
▣ Host: Inter-University Center at SKKU, SKKU AEAS Humanities Korea
▣ Moderator: Prof. Hwang, Hoduk(SKKU)
■ Prof. Ross King(University of British Columbia)
“Ditching ‘Diglossia': Describing Ecologies of the Spoken and Inscribed in Pre-modern Korea”
This lecture critiques previous research about the relationship between speech and writing in East Asia in general, and in Korea in particular, with a view to two questions of terminology:
how to refer to the complex ecology of spoken and written language in pre-20th century Korea, and how to refer to the broader East Asian cultural formation of which Korea was a part.
Following the seminal work of Sheldon Pollock on the ‘Sanskrit Cosmopolis,’ the author proposes the term ‘Sinographic Cosmopolis’ for the regions of East Asia that used Literary Sinitic and sinographs, and presents arguments suggesting that the term ‘diglossia’ has little or no utility in discussing ecologies of speech and writing, whether in pre-modern Korea or in the broader Sinographic Cosmopolis.
* All lectures will be producted by academic Korean. No registration required.