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Conversing in the Metaverse

Kiaer, Jieun
Conversing in the Metaverse
How do metaverse technologies change how we communicate with each other? This book explores how existing metaverse technologies affect our communication, both verbal and non-verbal, as well as the ramifications of these effects. Communication is central to the human experience, and how we currently communicate (and will communicate) can affect our sense of identity and relationships with others, which can have huge long term societal repercus...

CHF 155.00

Emoji Speak

Kiaer, Jieun
Emoji Speak
Providing an in-depth discussion of emoji use in a global context, this volume presents the use of emoji as a hugely important facet of computer-mediated communication, leading author Jieun Kiaer to coin the term 'emoji speak'. Exploring why and how emojis are born, and the different ways in which people use them, this book highlights the diversity of emoji speak. Presenting the results of empirical investigations with participants of British,...

CHF 56.90

Understanding Korean Film

Kiaer, Jieun / Kim, Loli
Understanding Korean Film
Understanding Korean Film: A Cross-Cultural Perspective explains the potential meaning of a selection of common Korean verbal and non-verbal expressions in a range of contexts in South Korean film that are often untranslatable for English-speaking Western viewers.

CHF 66.00

The Future of Syntax

Kiaer, Jieun
The Future of Syntax
Proposing a new approach to the study of language, this book argues for the need to consider syntax in context and to engage with a wider variety of perspectives that better reflect the modern world and the changes to our language prompted by increased cultural diversity, the prevalence of social media, AI, and more. Referencing big data and drawing on a corpus of linguistic research, the book explores in particular the socio-pragmatic sensiti...

CHF 155.00

Multimodal Communication in Young Multilingual Children

Kiaer, Jieun
Multimodal Communication in Young Multilingual Children
This book explores young children's language acquisition in multilingual households through an original longitudinal study of the author's own children and interviews with members of other Korean-English families. The study investigates how multilingual children not only acquire multiple languages (verbal communication) but also acquire multiple strategies of non-verbal communication. In the process, it is also revealed that parents learn from...

CHF 149.00

The Language of Hallyu

Kiaer, Jieun
The Language of Hallyu
The Language of Hallyu will re-examine the language of the Korean Wave by looking at popular K-content. In doing so, it will expose the meanings that get lost in translation, hidden under subtitles.

CHF 201.00

Emoji Speak

Kiaer, Jieun
Emoji Speak
Providing an in-depth discussion of emoji use in a global context, this volume presents the use of emoji as a hugely important facet of computer-mediated communication, leading author Jieun Kiaer to coin the term 'emoji speak'. Exploring why and how emojis are born, and the different ways in which people use them, this book highlights the diversity of emoji speak. Presenting the results of empirical investigations with participants of British,...

CHF 156.00

Delicious Words

Kiaer, Jieun
Delicious Words
As societies across the globe are becoming increasingly interwoven, so too is the world of food. This book examines the lives of such words in today¿s discourse on eating and drinking, focusing on foreign influences on culinary terms in English, and how words are born and evolve in a transcultural environment.

CHF 30.90

Pragmatics in Korean and Japanese Translation

Kiaer, Jieun / Cagan, Ben
Pragmatics in Korean and Japanese Translation
This book explores how the greater amount of pragmatic information encoded in Korean and Japanese can result in pragmatic (in)visibility when translating between those languages and English. Pragmatic information must be added when translating from English to Korean or Japanese and is easily lost when translating in the other direction.

CHF 196.00

Pragmatics in Korean and Japanese Translation

Kiaer, Jieun / Cagan, Ben
Pragmatics in Korean and Japanese Translation
This book explores how the greater amount of pragmatic information encoded in Korean and Japanese can result in pragmatic (in)visibility when translating between those languages and English. Pragmatic information must be added when translating from English to Korean or Japanese and is easily lost when translating in the other direction.

CHF 60.50