Korean Conversation Gambits: Developing Spoken Language provides specific linguistic and communicative strategies that help Korean language learners engage in daily conversations as well as discussions and negotiations in work and academic contexts.
Korean Conversation Gambits: Developing Spoken Language provides specific linguistic and communicative strategies that help Korean language learners engage in daily conversations as well as discussions and negotiations in work and academic contexts.
The book presents, and provides practice in, spoken Korean gambits that will help speakers organise their conversations and frame the type of extended discourse that is common in spoken Korean. The book introduces students to strategies for getting thinking time, dealing with breakdowns in comprehension, asking for and providing clarification, exemplifying, floor-holding, interrupting, checking understanding, disagreeing, reformulating and organising longer stretches of discourse; for example, when giving presentations, telling stories or providing self-introductions. Korean Conversation Gambits: Developing Spoken Language comes complete with classroom-ready practice materials.
This textbook can be used as a resource by both teachers and Korean learners from introductory to intermediate and proficient levels.
About the contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Korean Conversation Gambits A Resource Book for Teachers and
Learners
Part A: Gambits for Everyday Conversations
Topic/situation Level Gambit type Function
Chapter
1. Talking about Tastes (Music and Movies) Intro. Responding Gambits
Getting Thinking Time
Chapter
2. Talking about Plans and Everyday Activities Intro.
Linking/Expanding Gambits Adding Information
Chapter
3. Discussing Likes and Dislikes (Food and University Subjects)
Intro. Expanding Gambits Offering Explanations and Providing Reasons
Chapter
4. Hobbies, Pastimes and Plans Intro. Requesting Gambits Asking for
Clarification, Dealing with Breakdowns in Understanding
Chapter
5. Talking about Plans, Wishes, Desires Intro. Responding Gambits
Asking for more Information
Chapter
6. Greetings: Meeting and Parting Intro. Greeting Adjacency Pairs
Chapter
7. Talking about Travel, Shared Interests (Movies, Plans, Holidays)
Intro. Responding Gambits Responding Gambits: Showing Interest and Finding
Commonality
Chapter
8. Discussing Food, Drink Customs and National Culture. Interm.
Requesting and Expanding Gambits Asking for Clarification and Providing
Explanations
Chapter
9. Discussing Tastes and Attraction Interm. Expanding and Sequencing
Gambits Illustrating your Point, Providing more Detail; Structuring
Responses: Ranking
Chapter
10. Giving Bad, Surprising or Shocking News Prof. Opening Gambits
(When giving Difficult News)
Chapter
11. Reacting to News Prof. Responding Gambits
Chapter
12. Talking about appearances, ability Prof. Responding Gambits
Receiving Compliments
Chapter
13. Talking about News Prof. Responding/Linking Gambits Shifting the
Subject of Conversation to Similar or Related Topics
Chapter
14. Story-telling, Jokes, Anecdotes Prof. Handling Longer Stretches
of Spoken Discourse Opening Stories, Attracting Attention, Scene-setting,
Recounting what was Said, Returning to the Story after Digressions, Wrapping
up Stories
Part B: Gambits for Everyday situations
Topic/situation Level Gambit type Function
Chapter
15. Street Directions and Instructions
Intro. Checking Gambits Checking Understanding
Chapter
16. Talking about Transportation Intro. Sequencing Gambits
Chapter
17. Service Situations Intro. Service Situation Adjacency Pairs
Requesting and Thanking for Service, Asking for Information
Chapter
18. Speaking on the Phone Interm. Telephone Conversation Adjacency
Pairs Opening, Ending Calls, Dealing with Technical Difficulties
Chapter
19. Describing Recipes or Other Processes Interm. Sequencing and
Linking Instructions
Part C: Gambits for Work/school life
Topic/situation Level Gambit type Function
Chapter
20. Meeting People; Talking about Personal Information Intro.
Managing longer Discourses:
Self-introductions (for Beginners)
Chapter
21. Talking about Health Interm. Mini-presentations during Meetings
in Business and Classroom Discourse Summarising, Paraphrasing
Chapter
22. Presenting Arguments, Proposals, Pitches Prof. Organizing longer
stretches of Discourses:
Presentations
Presentation Introductions
Greeting
Getting Attention
Introducing Topics
Signposting
Starting
Presentation Main Sections
Defining
Exemplifying
Comparing and Contrasting
Referring to Tables
Referring Back
Shifting Topics
Emphasizing
Explaining
Presentation Conclusions: Q and A
Summarising
Thanking
Inviting Questions
Responding to Questions
Deflecting
Ending
Chapter
23. Discussing/Arguing (1) Prof. Discussion Gambits Providing
Opinions
Chapter
24. Discussing/Arguing (2) Prof. Discussion Gambits Disagreeing
Chapter
25. Discussing/Arguing (3) Prof. Discussion Gambits Agreeing
Chapter
26. Discussing/Arguing (4) Prof. Discussion Gambits Requesting and
Providing Clarification
Chapter
27. Discussing/Arguing (5) Prof. Discussion Gambits Checking
Understanding
Chapter
28. Discussing/Arguing (6) Prof. Discussion Gambits Asking for
Clarification, reformulating, Confirming/Correcting
Chapter
29. Discussing/Arguing (7) Prof. Discussion Gambits Asking for and
Providing Exemplification
Chapter
30. Discussing/Arguing (8) Prof. Discussion Gambits Interrupting and
Taking Turns
Audio Transcripts
Answer Key to Exercises
References
Index
List of Gambits by Type (English)
List of Principal Gambits (alphabetical) in English
List of Principal Gambits (alphabetical) in Korean
Heekyung Ahn, School Education Services Manager, Department of Education, Victoria State Government.
Andrew David Jackson, Associate Professor and Director of Monash University Korean Studies Research Hub (MUKSRH) at Monash University, Melbourne.
Hyun Mi Kim, Teaching Associate at Monash University, Melbourne.
Soyeon Kim, Research Fellow at Monash University, Melbourne.
Eva Richards, PhD student at Monash University, Melbourne.
Adam Zulawnik, Academic specialising in Korean, Japanese and translation studies at the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne, Melbourne.
