COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF LINGUACULTURAL FEATURES OF ENGLISH AND KOREAN LANGUAGES

Language is the tool with which we become aware of ourselves as one cultural being and of others equally as other cultural beings. Being aware of the logic underlying language will help people understand better their own reasoning and cultural context from which it comes, as well as the other’s viewpoint. This also helps participants in conversation go beyond comprehending the surface meaning of the words to discovering the logic of their interlocutor’s utterances ultimately for better and effective communications. In this article, we are going to analyze English and Korean languages in term of the interrelation between a culture and language