Reading List in
Korean Sociolinguistics

Ahn, Hyejeong, and Jieun Kiaer

  2021  Pop culture words: How can K-Wave turn Korean words into global, translingual words? English Today 37(3):178-187.

Ahn, Junehui

  2016  “Don't Cry, You're Not a Baby!”: Emotion, Role and Hierarchy in Korean Language Socialisation Practice. Children & Society 30(1):12-24.

  2020  Honorifics and peer conflict in Korean children's language socialization. Linguistics and Education 59:100736.

  2021  From My Expression to Our Expressions: Multidirectionality of Learning in the Globalized Korea. Ethos.

Bailey, Benjamin

  2000  Communicative behavior and conflict between African-American customers and Korean immigrant retailers in Los Angeles. Discourse & Society 11(1):86-108.

Baratta, Alex

2022 The Societal Codification of Korean English. Bloomsbury.

Block, David

  2012  Commentary: Transnational South Korea as a site for a sociolinguistics of globalization and the distinction of global elites. Journal of Sociolinguistics 16(2):277-282.

Brown, Lucien

  2011  Korean honorifics and ‘revealed’,‘ignored’and ‘suppressed’aspects of Korean culture and politeness. In Politeness across cultures. Pp. 106-127: Springer.

  2013  “Mind your own esteemed business”: Sarcastic honorifics use and impoliteness in Korean TV dramas. Journal of Politeness Research 9(2):159-186

  2013  Identity and honorifics use in Korean study abroad. Social and cultural aspects of language learning in study abroad 37:269.

Brown, Lucien, and Jaehoon Yeon

  2015  The handbook of Korean linguistics. Chichester, West Sussex England ; Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell.

Brown, Lucien, and Bodo Winter

  2019  Multimodal indexicality in Korean:“doing deference” and “performing intimacy” through nonverbal behavior. Journal of Politeness Research 15(1):25-54.

Brown, Lucien,. B. Winter, K. Idemaru and S. Grawunder

  2014  Phonetics and politeness: Perceiving Korean honorific and non-honorific speech through phonetic cues. Journal of Pragmatics 66:45-60.

Bruno, Antonetta Lucia

  2002  The Gate of Words: Language in the Rituals of Korean Shamans: Leiden University Press.

Choi, Jinsook

  2018 [2016]  A Linguistic Anthropological Study of the Typification of Middle-Aged Men in Korea: An Examination of Ajae Joke Data. Korean Anthropology Review 2:109-139.

  2021  ‘No English, Korean only’: local students’ resistance to English as a lingua franca at an ‘English only’ university in Korea. Language and Intercultural Communication 21(2):276-288.

Chun, Elaine W

  2001  The construction of white, black, and Korean American identities through African American Vernacular English. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 11(1):52-64.

Harkness, Nicholas

2010  Words in motion and the semiotics of the unseen in two Korean churches. Language & Communication 30(2):139-158.

  2011  Culture and interdiscursivity in Korean fricative voice gestures. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 21(1):99-123.

  2012  Vowel harmony redux: Correct sounds, English loan words, and the sociocultural life of a phonological structure in Korean. Journal of Sociolinguistics 16(3):358-381.

  2013  Songs of Seoul: An Ethnography of Voice and Voicing in Christian South Korea: Univ of California Press.

  2015  Basic Kinship Terms: Christian Relations, Chronotopic Formulations, and a Korean Confrontation of Language. Anthropological Quarterly 88(2):305-336.

  2015  Linguistic emblems of South Korean society. In The Handbook of Korean linguistics. L. Brown and J. Yeon, eds. Pp. 492-508. Chichester, West Sussex England; Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell.

  2017  Glossolalia and cacophony in South Korea: Cultural semiosis at the limits of language. American Ethnologist 44(3):476-489.

Hough, Jennifer

  2021  The racialization of North Koreans in South Korea: diasporic co-ethnics in the South Korean ethnolinguistic nation. Ethnic and Racial Studies:1-20.

Hwang, Juck-Ryoon

  1990  ‘Deference’versus ‘politeness’ in Korean speech. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 1990(82):41-56.

Jeon, Mihyon

  2012  Globalization of English teaching and overseas Koreans as temporary migrant workers in rural Korea. Journal of Sociolinguistics 16(2):238-254.

Jo, Dongwon

  2017  H-mail and the early configuration of online user culture in Korea. In The Routledge companion to global Internet histories G. Goggin and M. McLelland, eds. Pp. 197–208. London: Routledge.

Kang, Yoonhee

  2012  Singlish or Globish: Multiple language ideologies and global identities among Korean educational migrants in Singapore. Journal of Sociolinguistics 16(2):165-183.

Kiaer, Jieun

  2017  The Routledge Course in Korean Translation: Routledge.

Kim, Jeongyeon, Bradley Tatar, and Jinsook Choi

  2014  Emerging culture of English-medium instruction in Korea: Experiences of Korean and international students. Language and Intercultural Communication 14(4):441-459.

Kim, Jong-Bok, and Peter Sells

  2007  Korean honorification: A kind of expressive meaning. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 16(4):303-336.

Kim, Kyu-hyun

  2018  Enhancing solidarity through dispreferred format: The nuntey-clause in Korean conversation as a normative basis for leveraging action. East Asian Pragmatics 3(1).

  2021  Korean ‘topic’particle nun as a categorization resource for organizing retro-sequence: Redressing the situated action ‘on the periphery’. Journal of Pragmatics 183:225-241.

King, Ross

  1998  Nationalism and language reform in Korea: The questione della lingua in precolonial Korea. Nationalism and the construction of Korean identity:33-72.

  2004  Western Protestant missionaries and the origins of Korean language modernization. Journal of International and Area Studies 11(3):7-38.

  2006  Korean kinship terminology. Korean language in culture and society:101-107.

Koh, Kyung-Nan

  2020  Scaling Femininity: Production of Semiotic Economy in the South Korean Cosmetics Industry. Signs and Society 8(2):356-368.

Lee, Jeong Bok

  2011  Sociolinguistic Approach to the Terms of Address Used by Netizens on the Korean Twitter (트위터 누리꾼들의 호칭어 사용에 대한 사회언어학적 접근). Korean Language and Literature (어문학) (114):143-174.

  2012  Characteristics and Strategies of the Korean Honorifics in Internet Communication Language (인터넷 통신 언어 경어법의 특성과 사용 전략 ). The sociolinguistic journal of Korea (사회언어학):177-211.

Lee, Jamie Shinhee

  2012  A woman with a hot body but a baby face" and "a chic, smooth talker": Blending lexicon and shifting images on Korean TV. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: Nam Center for Korean Studies, Colloquium Series.

Lee, Kwang-kyu

  1997  Korean Family and Kinship. Seoul: Chimmundang.

Lee, Kwang-Kyu, and Youngsook Kim Harvey

  1973  Teknonymy and geononymy in Korean kinship terminology. Ethnology 12(1):31-46.

Lim, Hyun-Chin, and Joon Han

  2003  The social and political impact of economic crisis in South Korea: a comparative note. Asian Journal of Social Science 31(2):198-220.

Lo, Adrienne

  2009  Lessons about respect and affect in a Korean heritage language school. Linguistics and Education 20(3):217-234.

Lo, Adrienne, et al.

  2017  South Korea's education exodus: The life and times of early study abroad: University of Washington Press.

Lo, Adrienne, and Lee Jin Choi

  2017  Forming capital: Emblematizing discourses of mobility in South Korea. Language in Society 46(1):77-93.

Lo, Adrienne, and Jenna Chi Kim

  2012  Linguistic competency and citizenship: Contrasting portraits of multilingualism in the South Korean popular media. Journal of Sociolinguistics 16(2):255-276.

Martin, Samuel

  1964  Speech levels in Japan and Korea. In Language in culture and society. D. Hymes, ed. Pp. 415, Vol. 407. New York: Harper and Row.

Moon, Seonghye

  2011  Expectation and reality: Korean sojourner families in the UK. Language and education 25(2):163-176.

Oh, Sun-Young

  2007  Overt reference to speaker and recipient in Korean. Discourse Studies 9(4):462-492.

Park, Dongoh

  2015  Social Life of PKI: Sociotechnical Development of Korean Public-Key Infrastructure. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 37(2):59-71.

  2016  The Korean Character Code: A National Controversy, 1987-1995. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 38(2):40-53.

Park, Jonghyun

  2016  Rap as Korean Rhyme: Local Enregisterment of the Foreign. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 26(3):278-293.

Park, Joseph Sung-Yul

  2009  The local construction of a global language : ideologies of English in South Korea. Berlin ; New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

  2009  Regimenting languages on Korean television: subtitles and institutional authority. Text & Talk 29(5):547-570.

  2010  Images of "good English" in the Korean conservative press: Three processes of interdiscursivity. Pragmatics and Society 1(2):189-208.

  2010  Naturalization of Competence and the Neoliberal Subject: Success Stories of English Language Learning in the Korean Conservative Press. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 20(1):22-38.

  2014  Cartographies of language: Making sense of mobility among Korean transmigrants in Singapore. Language & Communication 39:83-91.

Park, Joseph Sung-Yul, and Adrienne Lo

  2012  Transnational South Korea as a site for a sociolinguistics of globalization: Markets, timescales, neoliberalism. Journal of Sociolinguistics 16(2):147-164.

Park, Soon-ham

  1975  On Special Uses of Kinship Terms in Korean. Journal of Korean Studies 15(9):4-8.

Prentice, Michael M.

  2015  Managing Intertextuality: Display and Discipline across Documents at a Korean Firm. Signs and Society 3(S1):S70-S94.

  2019  The Powers in PowerPoint: Embedded Authorities, Documentary Tastes, and Institutional (Second) Orders in Corporate Korea. American Anthropologist 121(2):350-362.

  2020  Old Spirits of Capitalism: Managers and Masculine Alterity in/as the Korean Office. Anthropological Quarterly 93(2):89-118.

  2021  The securitized workplace: document protection, insider threats and emerging ethnographic barriers in a South Korean organization. Journal of Organizational Ethnography.

2022  From drafts to drafting: genre work, time, and the fragility of managerial expertise in South Korea. Journal of Cultural Economy:1-15.

Rakova, Oxana, and Olga Fedorenko

  2021  Sticky notes against corporate hierarchies in South Korea: An ethnography of workplace collaboration and design co-creation. Design Studies 76:101033.

Ryang, Sonia

  2021  Language and truth in North Korea. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press.

Shinn, H.K.

  1990  A survey of sociolinguistic studies in Korea. International Journal of the Sociology of language, 8(2), 7-23.

Sohn, Ho-Min

  2001  The Korean Language: Cambridge University Press.

  2006  Korean language in culture and society. Honolulu, Hawaiʻi: University of Hawaiʻi Press.

Son, Chan-Hyun

  2002  Korea's corporate restructuring since the financial crisis. Volume 2: Korea Institute for International Economic Policy.

Song, Juyoung

  2012  The struggle over class, identity, and language: A case study of South Korean transnational families. Journal of Sociolinguistics 16(2):201-217.

Song, Jae Jung

  2005  The Korean language : structure, use and context. London ; New York: Routledge.

Stewart, Kym, and Hyewon Park Choi

  2003  PC-Bang (Room) Culture: A Study of Korean College Students' Private and Public Use of Computers and the Internet. Trends in Communication 11(1):63-79.

Strauss, Susan, and Jong Oh Eun

  2005  Indexicality and honorific speech level choice in Korean. Linguistics 43(3):611-651.

Wang, Hahn-Sok

  1990  Toward a description of the organization of Korean speech levels. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 1990(82):25-40.

Yi, Ki-mun, and S. Robert Ramsey

  2011  A history of the Korean language. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press.

Zur, Dafna

  2017  Figuring Korean futures : children's literature in modern Korea. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.