Language and Truth in North Korea

• Hoofdauteur: Ryang, Sonia (auth)
• Formaat: Elektronisch Hoofdstuk
• Taal: Engels
• Gepubliceerd in: University of Hawai'i Press 2021
• Onderwerpen: Historical & comparative linguistics; Central government policies; Asian history; Media studies; Linguistics; Public Policy & Administration; History; Asian Studies; Communication Studies
• Online toegang: 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...