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  1. From Object to Text to Stance

    Article • September 2025, De Gruyter

    Professor Seongha Rhee

  2. Proper names in Korean

    Article • Asian Languages and Linguistics, August 2025, John Benjamins

    Professor Seongha Rhee

  3. Appearances Are Deceiving: Polysemization and Grammaticalization of Korean and Thai Lexemes of Chinese Origin

    Article • Theory and Practice in Language Studies, August 2025, Academy Publication

    Professor Seongha Rhee

  4. Emergence of Discourse Markers of Interaction Management in Korean, Thai, and English: Grammaticalization and Discourse-Cognitive Perspectives

    Article • Language and Linguistics, May 2025, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Language Research Institute

    Professor Seongha Rhee

  5. Functional extension of demonstratives: The case of person reference in Thai and Korean

    Article • Australian Journal of Linguistics, April 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Seongha Rhee

  6. Book review

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, February 2025, Elsevier

    Professor Seongha Rhee

  7. The goal-over-source asymmetry in Thai and Korean

    Article • Language and Cognition, January 2025, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Seongha Rhee

  8. 5 On the emergence and pragmatic functions of discourse markers of interruption: A case in Korean

    Article • September 2024, De Gruyter

    Professor Seongha Rhee

  9. Comparison of Authorial Stance Between Professional and Amateur Writers in Scientific Correspondence Writing

    Article • Journal of Language Teaching and Research, September 2024, Academy Publication

    Professor Seongha Rhee

  10. Grammaticalization of Future-Time Reference Markers in Korean and Thai: A Focus on Morphosyntax and Conceptual Motivation

    Article • GEMA Online Journal of Language Studies, August 2024, Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM Press)

    Professor Seongha Rhee

  11. Demonstratives and speaker stance in Thai

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, July 2024, Elsevier

    Professor Seongha Rhee

  12. Apprehensionals and other kindred markers of non-realization in Korean

    Article • The Journal of Linguistics Science, March 2024, The Linguistic Science Society

    Professor Seongha Rhee

  13. Futuristic Questions in our Thinking: The Case of Apprehensionals in Korean

    Article • Studies in Modern Grammar, March 2024, Society of Modern Grammar

    Professor Seongha Rhee

  14. Stance-Taking and Sentence Types in Korean

    Article • Language and Linguistics, February 2024, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Language Research Institute

    Professor Seongha Rhee

  15. The Effects of Using Scientific Genre to Promote Undergraduate Students’ English Academic Writing in an ESP Course

    Article • World Journal of English Language, February 2024, Sciedu Press

    Professor Seongha Rhee

  16. Politeness and impoliteness in social network service communication in Korea

    Article • Russian Journal of Linguistics, December 2023, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia

    Professor Seongha Rhee

  17. Cultural Meanings of 'Small': Similar yet Different Semantic Networks of Diminutives in Thai and South Korean

    Article • December 2023, The CALA Unit, SOAS University of London

    Professor Seongha Rhee

  18. When Repressed Anger Fights Back

    Article • October 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Seongha Rhee

  19. Distance contrast of demonstrative-based discourse markers and speaker's stance in Korean

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, October 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Seongha Rhee

  20. Intertwined grammaticalization, degrammaticalization, and pragmaticalization: The case of ppwun ‘share’ in Korean

    Article • Lingua, August 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Seongha Rhee

  21. Book review

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, July 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Seongha Rhee

  22. On the development of discourse markers from elliptical structures

    Article • June 2023, John Benjamins

    Professor Seongha Rhee

  23. From fear to grammar: The case of avoidives

    Article • Lingua, June 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Seongha Rhee

  24. Current Trends and Prospects of Semantics-Pragmatics Research

    Article • Language and Linguistics, May 2023, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Language Research Institute

    Professor Seongha Rhee

  25. Repetitive constructions and stance-marking

    Article • February 2023, John Benjamins

    Professor Seongha Rhee

  26. Same and different ways of seeing faces: The cases of Korean and Thai

    Article • The Journal of Linguistics Science, December 2022, The Linguistic Science Society

    Professor Seongha Rhee

  27. Where to go at the end: Polylexicalization and polygrammaticalization of Kaz ‘edge’ in Korean

    Article • Russian Journal of Linguistics, September 2022, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia

    Professor Seongha Rhee

  28. The Cambridge Handbook of Korean Linguistics

    Article • August 2022, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Seongha Rhee

  29. On Pragmatics of Contrastiveness: The Discourse Marker But in English, Thai, and Korean

    Article • The Journal of Linguistics Science, March 2022, The Linguistic Science Society

    Professor Seongha Rhee

  30. Grammaticalisation of Discourse Markers in East Asian Languages Introduction

    Article • East Asian Pragmatics, November 2021, University of Toronto Press (UTPress)

    Professor Seongha Rhee

  31. The rise and fall of a discourse marker

    Article • East Asian Pragmatics, November 2021, University of Toronto Press (UTPress)

    Professor Seongha Rhee

  32. From truth to reality to effect

    Article • East Asian Pragmatics, November 2021, University of Toronto Press (UTPress)

    Professor Seongha Rhee

  33. Triangulation supports agricultural spread of the Transeurasian languages

    Article • Nature, November 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Seongha Rhee

  34. Book review

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, August 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Seongha Rhee

  35. Pseudo-hortative and the development of the discourse markereti poca(‘well, let’s see’) in Korean

    Article • Journal of Historical Pragmatics, August 2020, John Benjamins

    Professor Seongha Rhee

  36. On sentence-final “what” in Singlish: Are you the Queen of England, or what?

    Article • Journal of Language Contact, January 2018, Brill

    Professor Debra Ziegeler, Professor Seongha Rhee

  37. Multifaceted gustation

    Article • Terminology International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Issues in Specialized Communication, November 2017, John Benjamins

    Professor Seongha Rhee

  38. LP and RP in the development of discourse markers from “what” in Korean

    Article • Journal of Historical Pragmatics, December 2016, John Benjamins

    Professor Seongha Rhee

  39. Analogy­-driven grammaticalization: A case of grammaticalization of sentence­final markers from concomitance-­connectives

    Article • Linguistic Research, December 2014, Institute for the Study of Language and Information, Kyung Hee University

    Professor Seongha Rhee

  40. “I know you are not, but if you were asking me”: On emergence of discourse markers of topic presentation from hypothetical questions

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, January 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Seongha Rhee

  41. Review of Kim (2011): Grammaticalization in Korean: The Evolution of the Existential Verb

    Article • Korean Linguistics, December 2013, John Benjamins

    Professor Seongha Rhee

  42. “I will do it… but I’m Asking you to do it”: On the Emergence of Polite Imperative from Promissive

    Article • Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, November 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Seongha Rhee

  43. “I Know I’m Shameless to Say this”: Grammaticalization of the Mitigating Discourse Marker Makilay in Korean

    Article • Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, November 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Seongha Rhee

  44. On an emerging paradigm of sentence-final particles of discontent: a grammaticalization perspective

    Article • Language Sciences, May 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Seongha Rhee

  45. Chapter 13. Grammaticalization of space in Korean and Japanese

    Article • January 2013, John Benjamins

    Professor Seongha Rhee, Dr Heiko Narrog

  46. Persistence and division of labor in grammaticalization: The case of out of and from in English

    Article • Linguistic Research, December 2012, Institute for the Study of Language and Information, Kyung Hee University

    Professor Seongha Rhee

  47. Context-induced reinterpretation and (inter)subjectification: the case of grammaticalization of sentence-final particles

    Article • Language Sciences, May 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Seongha Rhee

  48. Grammaticalization in Korean

    Article • October 2011

    Professor Seongha Rhee

  49. Nominalization and stance marking in Korean

    Article • January 2011, John Benjamins

    Professor Seongha Rhee

  50. At the Borderland of Lexis and Grammar: Grammaticalizing Perfective Markers in Korean

    Article • Discourse and Cognition, December 2008, The Discourse and Cognitive Linguistics Society of Korea

    Professor Seongha Rhee

  51. On the rise and fall of Korean nominalizers

    Article • January 2008, John Benjamins

    Professor Seongha Rhee

  52. On Interrelation of Instrumental and Ablative

    Article • Discourse and Cognition, December 2007, The Discourse and Cognitive Linguistics Society of Korea

    Professor Seongha Rhee

  53. Particle selection in Korean auxiliary formation

    Article • January 2007, John Benjamins

    Professor Seongha Rhee