Jaeho Lim
Yonsei University
研究室紹介
Professor Jaeho Lim's research lab specializes in sociolinguistics, language policy, and structuralist theory, with a focus on understanding language as a dynamic system shaped by social, ideological, and institutional structures. The lab develops and applies theoretical frameworks such as the Structural Approach to Language Policy Spaces (SALPS) to analyze language use and policy across diverse settings—including schools, nations, and transnational institutions. It also explores the philosophical and epistemological foundations of language, particularly through the lens of structuralism and hyperstructure, integrating insights from Saussure, Lacan, and Chomskyan linguistics. A key direction is the study of language ideology, identity, and power in multilingual and multicultural contexts, especially in educational and transnational environments.
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Selected Papers
15In this article, we propose a language policy theory named “structural approach to language policy spaces”. This theory aims to represent a general system of language policies constructed by seven factors : wide/narrow language practice, background/expression of language ideology,language manager, wide/narrow language management. With this theory, we provide explanations for each system of language policy spaces as family, workplace, school, people, region, church,nation-state and superstate.
Structuralism is still problematic. In this article, we review the notion of structure used by Saussure, and compare it with Lacan’s concept of hyperstructure. We argue that structure in Saussure, qua analogical structure, serves as the locus where the speaker can “create” new lexical terms. Contrary to common belief, linguistic structure (Saussurian & Jakobsonian structure) includes within itself a place for the linguistic subject. We then offer a close examination of analogy in terms of lingui
On sait que depuis 1866, le problème de l’origine du langage est tabou au sein des sciences du langage. Cette situation, qui semble venir du scientisme linguistique, n’est pas incontestable. Comme l’indique le nom de la discipline, le langage (non pas telle ou telle langue) est l’objet d’étude des sciences du langage. Puis ces sciences ont l’expérience d’établir une science, c’est-à-dire une épistémologie spécifique, propre aux sciences humaines, bien entendu y compris la linguistique. Le nom de
Surtout avec les travaux de la linguistique chomskyenne, les phénomènes d’accord sont devenus un des sujets majeurs de la linguistique contemporaine. La linguistique chomskyenne a accueilli le mécanisme de la morphologie flexionnelle au sein de sa théorie syntaxique, en créant les catégories morpho-syntaxiques telles que Acc et GAcc. Dans cet article, nous présentons une autre théorie qui permet d’expliquer le mécanisme des phénomènes d’accord structuraux, intitulée théorie de l’accord grammatic
이 논문은 프랑스어 문법에서 흔히 허사explétif로 불리는 ne에 대한 연구이다. 허사 ne에 대한 문법서들의 입장은 합의되어 있지 않다. 언어학의 성과를 받아들여 언어학의 술어로 설명을 하려는 경우도 있고, 결국은 허사의 행태에 문법 규칙을 부여할 수 없다는 회의적 입장도 있고, 그 허사는 반복이며 잉여인 요소로 무용할 뿐 아니라 남용을 통해 언어적 오염을 유발시키기 때문에 처방을 통해 극복되어야 할 오류라고 보는 학자도 있다. 현대 언어학은 특히 의미·화용론이 중심이 되어 이 논제에 대한 분석을 행하였다. 그 분석들에 기본적 공통점이 있다면 허사 ne가 일종의 부정성négativité이라는 의미가 있다는 전제이다. 혹자는 그 부정성이 논리·의미적인 것이라 보고, 혹자는 화용론에서 말하는 논증적인 것이라 본다. 그런데 그 허사의 출현은 불규칙적이다. 좀더 정확히 말하면 그것의 사용은 문법 조건이 아닌 사용자의 임의에 따르는 것처럼 보일 뿐 아니라, 사용 기준이 불확실하여 혼란스
Le style est un terme lexical introduit en français au 14e siècle et depuis lors utilisé dans des contextes variés. Au 18e siècle, un autre terme lexical, stylistique, est inséré dans la langue française sans relation scientifique avec style. C’est Bally qui a accordé une relation scientifique entre style et stylistique, mais cette relation est remaniée par l’introducteur lui-mê̂me, pour la raison suivante que style n’est pas un terme purement linguistique. Pourtant, non seulement dans les doma
This article analyses foreign schools in Korea such as Xavier International School,Seoul Mongolian School and Seoul German School as language policy spaces andsecured the data through in-depth interviews and classroom observations. We applied alanguage policy theory, named Structural Approach to Language PolicySpaces(SALPS), in which revealed individual structures of the foreign schools werecompared in order to understand the general structure and the characteristics of eachschool. The mother co
Dans cet article, nous avons discuté d'une construction dite construction accusatif+infinitif. Celle-ci a intéressé les syntacticiens contemporains notamment à cause du phénomène du marquage du Cas accusatif sur le sujet de la proposition infinitive. Ce phénomène est considéré généralement comme le résultat de l'absence de marqueur de Cas à l'intérieur de la proposition infinitive. Nous avons examiné les solutions existantes du phénomène en cause (solution basée sur la notion de montée, solution
Milner and Regnault’s syntactic and phonological theory (1987) is concerned with the confusions that diseurs could face in regards to the pronunciations of French schwa. According to their theory, in French, there is a principle which helps conserve this weak vowel maximally. They call it “maximum conservation principle of schwa”. In contrast, the elimination of the problematic phoneme is demanded respectively by some rules of langue or of poetry. So in poetic space as alexandrines, we observe t