Publications

Publication details [#55392]

Sung-Yul Park, Joseph. 2011. The promise of English: linguistic capital and the neoliberal worker in the South Korean job market. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 14 (4) : 543–455.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

job interview | language dominance | language status | social inequality | workplace conversation

Language as a subject

English | Korean

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This study on social inequality related to language use, explores the misconception of ‘the promise of English’ to the field of the South Korean job market, where English language competence plays a key role in establishing access to white-collar jobs.