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Anglicized Korean Neologisms of the New Millennium: An Overview

A study of how new Korean lexicon incorporates English

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 May 2016

Eun-Young Julia Kim
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With a rapid increase of electronic communication and online social media, the English language has become a ubiquitous element in global communication. Although change is an inevitable phenomenon in any living language, an infiltration of a foreign language is often resisted by those who fear that a foreign influence would disintegrate the purity of their language, sabotaging its integrity and distinctiveness.

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English Today , Volume 32 , Issue 3 , September 2016 , pp. 52 - 60
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