Linguistic - Assignment Example

Work and family are both important so that does as well. Choong-hoon spoke the most. His co-worker Jun-gil also spoke a lot. This might be because Choong-hoon is the oldest male there. Although everyone made fun of Jun-gil for only speaking to Choong-hoon, he did actually talk a lot as well. This is probably because he is a guest who does not know everybody else, so they wanted to know more about him and also help him to relax. People were all polite to Jun-gil, who was not a member of the group before.

So they asked him polite questions about his family and job. Between most of the other people the discussion style was a lot more filled with jokes as people were more familiar with each other. Even when this is the case the polite conversation markers like oh-bba were sometimes used. Interestingly they sometimes seemed to be used to just make the jokes not be taken personally. For instance when I told Choong-hoon to mind his own business. Disagreement or interruption usually goes along with the gender of people.

For instance when Hye-jung did not speak clearly, it was another girl who said something about it first. Choong-hoon then did say he thought so too, but he did not say so straight away. Also when Jun-gil is talking about whether he was working during his wifes labor, Jun-ho, another male, is the one who interrupts him. A lot of the special Korean words like oh-bba would have to be explained. More importantly the reasons for these words would probably not make sense to people outside of the Korean language speakers group.

Because in Korean there are different ways of speaking to people depending on how well you know them and whether they are older or more worthy of being respected than you, it might be confusing for people who do not speak