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Article: Negotiating Conflict Within the Constraints of Social Hierarchies in Korean American Discourse

TitleNegotiating Conflict Within the Constraints of Social Hierarchies in Korean American Discourse
Authors
KeywordsConflict
Codeswitching
Korean American discourse
Socail hierarchy
Kinship terms
Issue Date2003
PublisherBlackwell Publishing Ltd.
Citation
Journal of Sociolinguistics, 2003, v. 7 n. 3, p. 299-320 How to Cite?
AbstractThis paper provides an interactional account of conflict negotiation strategies in Korean American discourse. With specific attention to the sociolinguistic phenomenon of codeswitching among Korean Americans, I argue that speaking Korean at particular moments evokes ideologies of social hierarchy that serve to mitigate potential conflicts. The Korean social ideology of relative status has a major influence on how bilingual Korean Americans interact with one another, regardless of whether they are using Korean or English. The use of codeswitching, among other mitigating strategies in discourse, serves to instantiate these hierarchical relationships and introduces particular social norms that guide the observable actions used in navigating meaning and social relations. The data analyzed here show how the evocation of Korean social ideologies may serve as an identifiable characteristic of Korean American discourse.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/48383
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dc.contributor.authorKang, AMen_HK
dc.date.accessioned2008-05-22T03:52:24Z-
dc.date.available2008-05-22T03:52:24Z-
dc.date.issued2003en_HK
dc.identifier.citationJournal of Sociolinguistics, 2003, v. 7 n. 3, p. 299-320en_HK
dc.identifier.issn1360-6441en_HK
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/48383-
dc.description.abstractThis paper provides an interactional account of conflict negotiation strategies in Korean American discourse. With specific attention to the sociolinguistic phenomenon of codeswitching among Korean Americans, I argue that speaking Korean at particular moments evokes ideologies of social hierarchy that serve to mitigate potential conflicts. The Korean social ideology of relative status has a major influence on how bilingual Korean Americans interact with one another, regardless of whether they are using Korean or English. The use of codeswitching, among other mitigating strategies in discourse, serves to instantiate these hierarchical relationships and introduces particular social norms that guide the observable actions used in navigating meaning and social relations. The data analyzed here show how the evocation of Korean social ideologies may serve as an identifiable characteristic of Korean American discourse.en_HK
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dc.publisherBlackwell Publishing Ltd.en_HK
dc.rightsJournal of Sociolinguistics. Copyright © Blackwell Publishing Ltd.en_HK
dc.rightsThe definitive version is available at www.blackwell-synergy.comen_HK
dc.subjectConflicten_HK
dc.subjectCodeswitchingen_HK
dc.subjectKorean American discourseen_HK
dc.subjectSocail hierarchyen_HK
dc.subjectKinship termsen_HK
dc.titleNegotiating Conflict Within the Constraints of Social Hierarchies in Korean American Discourseen_HK
dc.typeArticleen_HK
dc.identifier.openurlhttp://library.hku.hk:4550/resserv?sid=HKU:IR&issn=1360-6441&volume=7&issue=3&spage=299&epage=320&date=2003&atitle=Negotiating+Conflict+Within+the+Constraints+of+Social+Hierarchies+in+Korean+American+Discourseen_HK
dc.identifier.emailKang, AM: makang@hkucc.hku.hken_HK
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dc.identifier.doi10.1111/1467-9481.00226en_HK
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