Global fatigue: Transnational markets, linguistic capital, and Korean-American male English teachers in South Korea  

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Cho, John

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Sociolinguistics (Full Text) vol. 16 no. 2 (2012), page 218–237.
Topik: Korean-American; English teacher; South Korea; linguistic capital; return migration; linguistic migrant
Fulltext: Cho_John_(Song_Pae).pdf (605.91KB)

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Mass migration characterizes the current moment of globalization. Constituting a particular subset of this global migration are Korean- American male English teachers who use the linguistic capital of English, commodified as the language of international communication, to exit from the United States and to return to South Korea as linguistic migrants, where they reassert their patriarchal privilege as Korean men. In the highly gendered and racialized Korean English language market, however, they must prove their ‘native English speaker’ status.Remaining oriented towards theU.S. as their proper home, they also continually defer leaving South Korea as it means giving up the privileges of being a male English speaker and become stuck in a life of leisure and aimlessness. As the shadow of neoliberal globalization deepens and their linguistic capital becomes devalued with the return of more Koreans from abroad, their feelings of being stuck turn into global fatigue.

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