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Publication details [#55109]
Lo, Adrienne and Jenna Kim. 2011. Manufacturing citizenship: Metapragmatic framings of language competencies in media images of mixed race men in South Korea. Discourse & Society 22 (4) : 440–457. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
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Place, Publisher
SAGE Publications
Journal WWW
Annotation
This study argues that discourses of linguistic (in)competency in the South Korean popular media are social productions, rather than reflections of language ability. Language competence is read in relation to changing notions of citizenship in the new ‘multicultural’ Korea as these men are differentially positioned between multiple raced, classed, and gendered imaginings of Whiteness and Koreanness.