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The Korean Culture Wave or Hallyu, has long been considered as a soft power for constructing national image. To explore Hallyu, researchers adopted corpus linguistics methods to examine representations of Hallyu in various discourse. However, these studies differ in their corpora, time periods, and analytical focus, which makes direct comparison difficult. Also, no review of the corpus-based literature in this field has been conducted. This study reviews the adoption of corpus linguistics of Hallyu and identifies previous studies’ potential gaps. 10 studies were collected from Google Scholar and the Web of Science, in order to be analyzed, in terms of corpora, tools and theories. Results showed these studies, despite using corpus method, took various corpora sources, and they tended to focus on written data. Additionally, these studies used different corpus tools, including quantitative and qualitative ones. They even combined corpus linguistics with theories of other fields. This review shows that corpus methods are valuable for identifying recurring linguistic patterns, but there is still a gap in studies that connect these patterns to broader ideological questions of representation and social actors.
Biography
Dung Quoc Dang graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in English from University of Languages and International Studies - Vietnam National University and a Master’s Degree in Teaching English as a Foreign Language from Southern New Hampshire University. He is now a PhD candidate in English Linguistics in Hanoi University of Industry. The author has 3-year experience in teaching English as a Foreign Language and currently working as a lecturer in Haiphong University of Management and Technology.
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