한국적 영어학과 영어 코퍼스의 활용

English Linguistics in Korea and English Corpora

English linguistics of Korea, despite its considerable development and growth for thc last 50 years, has continued to lag behind that of not only the US and the UK but also many European countries and even Japan as well. The current state of English linguistics of Korea seems to be closely related, above all, to our lack of the native speaker s intuition about English and the failure in developing a successful model of Korean-style English linguistics which enables us to overcome our weaknesses and limitations and to make the best use of our strengths. The purpose of this paper is to show the possibility of developing a model of internationally competitive Korean-style English linguistics, which is proposed to be based on the ingenious use of English corpora I will first briefly review and evaluate the study of English linguistics in Korea. Then I will consider the question of how English corpora such as the BNC can and/or should be used for dealing with certain problems in English linguistics. I will conclude this paper by suggesting future directions for Korean English linguistics in connection with important problems confronting us.