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This book provides a comprehensive, informative overview of the history, contemporary state, and future direction of Korean dialectological research. It covers the pre-modern attestation of awareness about linguistic variation on the Korean Peninsula, traditional dialectology in 20th century Korea, and cutting-edge analyses enabled by 21st century computer technology and informed by contemporary sociolinguistics. As well as incorporating topics and approaches that widen the discipline, the book includes new, never-before-published cartographic visualisations of early Korean dialect data and findings. This book is essential reading if you intend to engage with the study of variation in the Korean language.

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Simon Barnes-Sadler, Ph.D. (2017), SOAS, University of London, is Departmental Lecturer in Korean Studies at the University of Oxford. He researches primarily Korean linguistic variation, teaches across the Korean Studies curriculum, and co-edits the journal Hallyu: The Korean Wave.

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