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Sung-Yul Park, Joseph. 2017. Transnationalism as interdiscursivity: Korean managers of multinational corporations talking about mobility. Language in Society 46 (1) : 23–38.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Cambridge University Press

Annotation

This paper examines how transnationalism can be understood as an interdiscursive process. By making connections with chronotopes of past places along a transmigrant's trajectory, interdiscursivity enables the appearance of intricate indexical meaning associated with different speakers and different ways of speaking, permeating the transmigrant's mobility with specific social significance. This paper shows this point via an analysis of how South Korean mid-level managers of multinational corporations in Singapore imagined their positioning in the global workplace.