Language and Truth in North Korea

• Main Author: Ryang, Sonia (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: University of Hawai'i Press 2021
• Subjects: Historical & comparative linguistics; Central government policies; Asian history; Media studies; Linguistics; Public Policy & Administration; History; Asian Studies; Communication Studies
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

In this innovative and persuasive volume, Sonia Ryang offers new ways to think about North Korea and how truth emerges over decades from within a dominant discourse. It explores four discrete yet mutually related domains of discourse: North Korea's literary purge of the 1950s-1960s; its state-i...