Linguistic competency and citizenship: Contrasting portraits of multilingualism in the South Korean popular media1  

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Lo, Adrienne

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Sociolinguistics (Full Text) vol. 16 no. 2 (2012), page 255–276.
Topik: Linguistic competency; citizenship; multilingualism; television; media; Korean American; South Korea
Fulltext: Lo_Adrienne.pdf (745.41KB)

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This paper examines how metapragmatic framings of multilingual competency and incompetency have become indexes of global and South Korean citizenship in the South Korean popular media. Drawing upon depictions of multilingualism in South Korean television deurama (‘drama’), comedy skits, and popularmusic, it examines how the locus of modernity and cosmopolitanism is moving away from the U.S.-oriented overseas Korean (gyopo) and towards the figure of the elite transnational returnee (saldaon saram). It argues that as the transnational circulation of people, media, and ideologies accelerates in the age of globalization, intra-ethnic discourses of linguistic mockery will also intensify.

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