Elaine W Chun
Biographic Data
| ID | 79919 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elaine W Chun |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elaine W |
| FAMILY NAME | Chun |
| SIGNATURE | CHUN E W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Carolina |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 202 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Korean Words in the OED: Race, Gender, and the Modern English Speaker
This article examines representations of the Modern English Speaker of Korean (MESK) in the Oxford English Dictionary ( OED ), as lexicographers listened to and documented the language of this figure over the past century. I show that, until the early twenty-first century, the most salient type of MESK was the Koreanist , a white, masculine expert on and translator of Korean, the language of a racial other. By contrast, more recent Korean entries…
How to drop a name: Hybridity, purity, and the K-pop fan
This article explores how fans of K-pop, a mediatized musical genre from South Korea, negotiated the tugs of competing language norms within the transnational context of YouTube. The analysis focuses on interactions that emerged over thirty-three months and across eleven 'reaction videos' posted by two English-speaking fans. I analyze the semiotic process by which these two speakers' utterances of Korean names came to be heard as hybrid by their …
Ideologies of legitimate mockery: Margaret Cho’s revoicings of mock Asian
This article examines a Korean American comedian's use of Mock Asian and the ideologies that legitimate this racializing style. These ideologies of legitimacy depend on assumptions about the relationship between communities, the authentication of a speaker's community membership, and the nature of the interpretive frame that has been "keyed". Specifically, her Mock Asian depends on and, to some extent, reproduces particular ideological links betw…
Speaking like Asian immigrants: Intersections of accommodation and mocking at a U.S. high school
This article explores the relationship between immigrant and non-immigrant Asian American youth identities and the use of language to manage this relationship. Focusing on everyday interactions at a high school in Texas, the analysis examines how fluent English-speaking Korean and Filipino American students draw on linguistic resources associated with Asian immigrants, thus attending to generational identity, an important, though often oversimpli…
Ironic Blackness as Masculine Cool: Asian American Language and Authenticity on YouTube
Journal Article Ironic Blackness as Masculine Cool: Asian American Language and Authenticity on YouTube Get access Elaine W. Chun Elaine W. Chun Department of English Language and Literature, University of South Carolina.E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Applied Linguistics, Volume 34, Issue 5, December 2013, Pages 592–612, https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amt023 Published: 06 Octo…
Figuring youth citizenship: Communicative practices mediating the cultural politics of citizenship and age
Styles of pledging allegiance: Practicing youth citizenship in the United States
Reading race beyond black and white
This article examines the practice of reading race, or the explicit labeling of people or practices with race terms. Through the close analysis of interactional moments, I examine how speakers of different ethnicities and genders across a Texas high school community strategically drew on this sociocultural practice for ideological commentary. First, I argue that readings of race often depended on an ideology of racial authenticity according to wh…
The Construction of White, Black, and Korean American Identities through African American Vernacular English
Discussions of racialized language rarely consider the linguistic practices of Asian Americans. This article examines one Korean American male student's conversational use of lexical elements from an imagined version of African American Vernacular English (AAVE). Although the speaker's linguistic practices maintain the dominance of whiteness in racial ideologies in the United States, his particular uses of AAVE index his relationship with both wh…
Ideologies of legitimate mockery: Margaret Cho’s revoicings of mock Asian
This article examines a Korean American comedian's use of Mock Asian and the ideologies that legitimate this racializing style. These ideologies of legitimacy depend on assumptions about the relationship between communities, the authentication of a speaker's community membership, and the nature of the interpretive frame that has been "keyed". Specifically, her Mock Asian depends on and, to some extent, reproduces particular ideological links betw…
The Construction of White, Black, and Korean American Identities through African American Vernacular English
Discussions of racialized language rarely consider the linguistic practices of Asian Americans. This article examines one Korean American male student's conversational use of lexical elements from an imagined version of African American Vernacular English (AAVE). Although the speaker's linguistic practices maintain the dominance of whiteness in racial ideologies in the United States, his particular uses of AAVE index his relationship with both wh…
Speaking like Asian immigrants: Intersections of accommodation and mocking at a U.S. high school
This article explores the relationship between immigrant and non-immigrant Asian American youth identities and the use of language to manage this relationship. Focusing on everyday interactions at a high school in Texas, the analysis examines how fluent English-speaking Korean and Filipino American students draw on linguistic resources associated with Asian immigrants, thus attending to generational identity, an important, though often oversimpli…
Reading race beyond black and white
This article examines the practice of reading race, or the explicit labeling of people or practices with race terms. Through the close analysis of interactional moments, I examine how speakers of different ethnicities and genders across a Texas high school community strategically drew on this sociocultural practice for ideological commentary. First, I argue that readings of race often depended on an ideology of racial authenticity according to wh…
How to drop a name: Hybridity, purity, and the K-pop fan
This article explores how fans of K-pop, a mediatized musical genre from South Korea, negotiated the tugs of competing language norms within the transnational context of YouTube. The analysis focuses on interactions that emerged over thirty-three months and across eleven 'reaction videos' posted by two English-speaking fans. I analyze the semiotic process by which these two speakers' utterances of Korean names came to be heard as hybrid by their …
Figuring youth citizenship: Communicative practices mediating the cultural politics of citizenship and age
Styles of pledging allegiance: Practicing youth citizenship in the United States
The Construction of White, Black, and Korean American Identities through African American Vernacular English
Discussions of racialized language rarely consider the linguistic practices of Asian Americans. This article examines one Korean American male student's conversational use of lexical elements from an imagined version of African American Vernacular English (AAVE). Although the speaker's linguistic practices maintain the dominance of whiteness in racial ideologies in the United States, his particular uses of AAVE index his relationship with both wh…
Reading race beyond black and white
This article examines the practice of reading race, or the explicit labeling of people or practices with race terms. Through the close analysis of interactional moments, I examine how speakers of different ethnicities and genders across a Texas high school community strategically drew on this sociocultural practice for ideological commentary. First, I argue that readings of race often depended on an ideology of racial authenticity according to wh…
Ironic Blackness as Masculine Cool: Asian American Language and Authenticity on YouTube
Journal Article Ironic Blackness as Masculine Cool: Asian American Language and Authenticity on YouTube Get access Elaine W. Chun Elaine W. Chun Department of English Language and Literature, University of South Carolina.E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Applied Linguistics, Volume 34, Issue 5, December 2013, Pages 592–612, https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amt023 Published: 06 Octo…
Figuring youth citizenship: Communicative practices mediating the cultural politics of citizenship and age
Styles of pledging allegiance: Practicing youth citizenship in the United States
Ideologies of legitimate mockery: Margaret Cho’s revoicings of mock Asian
This article examines a Korean American comedian's use of Mock Asian and the ideologies that legitimate this racializing style. These ideologies of legitimacy depend on assumptions about the relationship between communities, the authentication of a speaker's community membership, and the nature of the interpretive frame that has been "keyed". Specifically, her Mock Asian depends on and, to some extent, reproduces particular ideological links betw…
Speaking like Asian immigrants: Intersections of accommodation and mocking at a U.S. high school
This article explores the relationship between immigrant and non-immigrant Asian American youth identities and the use of language to manage this relationship. Focusing on everyday interactions at a high school in Texas, the analysis examines how fluent English-speaking Korean and Filipino American students draw on linguistic resources associated with Asian immigrants, thus attending to generational identity, an important, though often oversimpli…
How to drop a name: Hybridity, purity, and the K-pop fan
This article explores how fans of K-pop, a mediatized musical genre from South Korea, negotiated the tugs of competing language norms within the transnational context of YouTube. The analysis focuses on interactions that emerged over thirty-three months and across eleven 'reaction videos' posted by two English-speaking fans. I analyze the semiotic process by which these two speakers' utterances of Korean names came to be heard as hybrid by their …
Korean Words in the OED: Race, Gender, and the Modern English Speaker
This article examines representations of the Modern English Speaker of Korean (MESK) in the Oxford English Dictionary ( OED ), as lexicographers listened to and documented the language of this figure over the past century. I show that, until the early twenty-first century, the most salient type of MESK was the Koreanist , a white, masculine expert on and translator of Korean, the language of a racial other. By contrast, more recent Korean entries…
Multilingual Education and Policy (8 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (4 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Ideology (3 works)