The Local Construction of a Global Language: Ideologies of English in South Korea (Language, Power and Social Process [LPSP])

Author: Joseph Sung-Yul Park
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Category: Language Arts, Linguistics
Book Format: Hardcover

 

In South Korea, English is a language of utmost importance, sought with an unprecedented zeal as an indispensable commodity in education, business, popular culture, and national policy. This book investigates how the status of English as a hegemonic language in South Korea is constructed through the mediation of language ideologies in local discourse. Adopting the framework of language ideology and its current developments, it is argued that English in Korean society is a subject of deep-rooted ambiguities, with multiple and sometimes conflicting ideologies coexisting within a tension-ridden discursive space. The complex ways in which these ideologies are reproduced, contested, and negotiated through specific metalinguistic practices across diverse sites ultimately contribute to a local realization of the global hegemony of English as an international language. Through its insightful analysis of metalinguistic discourse in language policy debates, cross-linguistic humor, television shows, and face-to-face interaction, The Local Construction of a Global Language makes an original contribution to the study of language and globalization, proposing an innovative analytic approach that bridges the gap between the investigation of large-scale global forces and the study of micro-level discourse practices.

 

About Joseph Sung-Yul Park

Joseph Sung-Yul Park, National University of Singapore, Singapore.

 

(BK-9783110209631)

SKU BK-9783110209631
Barcode # 9783110209631
Brand Walter de Gruyter & Co
Artist / Author Joseph Sung-Yul Park
Shipping Weight 0.5000kg
Shipping Width 0.160m
Shipping Height 0.020m
Shipping Length 0.230m
Assembled Length 23.370m
Assembled Height 2.030m
Assembled Width 16.260m
Type Hardcover

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