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[Thiuda]

I would like to take some graduate courses in Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics or Cognitive linguistics at some of the better universities in the Seoul area. I've contacted SNU and KU and was unable to find any suitable courses. Does anyone have any info on these courses being offered in the fall of 2010 at universities in the Seoul area? I know they are on offer, but I don't know at which institutions.

Thanks in advance for any info.

[spyro25]

I doubt they would have any. Almost all of the work by Korean cognitive linguists I have read was done at foreign universities, so I wouldn't hold out much hope. It would likely fall under a VERY small section of any applied linguistics course here, as Koreans tend to focus on more traditional linguistic subjects such as phonology or syntax, and I don't imagine many of these korean universities would have any brain imaging units or eye scanners for use with cognitive linguistic experiments, and even if they did, I'm not sure you would have a great talent pool of professors who would teach you how to use them.

Japan might be a better bet, during my m.phil at cambridge in applied linguistics we had quite a few guest speakers doing great experiments from Japan. Uni of Tokyo might be a good place to try

After graduating from my Ph.D (starting this year) I would love the chance to return to Korea to open an applied linguistics program with a heavy cognitive slant, as i found the language processing sections of my masters degree the most fascinating, and I still have all of the materials.

good luck

[Thiuda]