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Publication details [#56587]

Lo, Adrienne and Jenna Kim. 2012. Linguistic competency and citizenship: Contrasting portraits of multilingualism in the South Korean popular media. Journal of Sociolinguistics 16 (2) : 255–276.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell

Annotation

This article explores how metapragmatic framings of multilingual skills and deficiencies have become popular media indexes of global and South Korean citizenship. As transnational people, media, and ideology circulation increases in the globalization age, intra-ethnic linguistic mockery discourses are also claimed to expand.