Kyung-Eun Yoon

TL;DR: The empirical evidence suggests robust human universals in this domain, where local variations are quantitative only, pointing to a single shared infrastructure for language use with likely ethological foundations.

TL;DR: This article investigated the use of demonstratives as filler words in spontaneous speech production, and explored the range of forms and functions of these demonstratives across diverse languages and explored theoretical issues that arise from the empirical observation, including why demonstratives, among all linguistic items, are utilized as a tool to deal with word-formulation trouble.

TL;DR: This paper examined uses of demonstratives as filler words in the context where speakers encounter trouble in formulating a word during spontaneous speech production, focusing on three East Asian languages (Japanese, Korean and Mandarin).

TL;DR: The authors presents an overview of previous studies on teaching culture, especially in relation to teaching Korean as a second/foreign language (KSL) and examines challenges faced by Korean teachers in teaching culture.

TL;DR: This paper examined discourse functions of Korean 'yes' words from an interactional perspective based on conversation data and identified a total of fifteen discourse-pragmatic functions, including affirmative response, confirmation, acceptance, agreement, agreement to summons, acknowledgment, change of state, change-of-activity, response solicitation, reinforcement, reinforcement, other initiation of repair, closing of phone call, continuer, proposal to discontinue the on-going action for the sake of a larger course of action, and the hesitation marker.