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Mapping Korean Englishes in Transnational Contexts

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Korean Englishes in Transnational Contexts

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This chapter maps the intellectual stakes of this collection, which considers how the performance of, and ideological commitments to, the English language within transnational contexts symbolizes the complex ways in which globalizing factors and transcultural flows interface with linguistic actions and practices. The chapter details the significance of ‘Korean Englishes’, which reflects not only the possibility that English can be a Korean language but that, contrary to the dominant expectations of world Englishes scholarship, it cannot be conceptualized in a uniform manner. It also clarifies the importance of understanding Korean Englishes in transnational contexts. It explores the extent to which ‘Korean’ is always already bound to transnational flows, and considers what happens to the very category of the ‘national’, (e.g. Korean) in the context of transnationalism, and what this means for the study of language, in particular, of Englishes.

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Lee, J.W., Jenks, C.J. (2017). Mapping Korean Englishes in Transnational Contexts. In: Jenks, C., Lee, J. (eds) Korean Englishes in Transnational Contexts. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59788-1_1

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