Publications

BOOKS/MONOGRAPHS AUTHORED

• 2021. In Pursuit of English: Language and Subjectivity in Neoliberal South Korea. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 
• 2012. Markets of English: Linguistic Capital and Language Policy in a Globalizing World. New York: Routledge. (co-authored with Lionel Wee)
• 2009. The Local Construction of a Global Language: Ideologies of English in South Korea. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
• 2006. A Reference Grammar of Wappo (UC Publications in Linguistics 138). Berkeley: University of California Press. (Co-authored with Sandra Thompson and Charles Li)

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

• 2020. Emotion, language, and cultural transformation. In Sonya Pritzker, Janina Fenigsen, and James Wilce (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Language and Emotion, 100-113. New York: Routledge. 
• 2015. Structures of feeling in unequal Englishes. In Ruanni Tupas (ed.), Unequal Englishes: The Politics of Englishes Today, 59-73. Basingstoke: Palgrave McMillan.
• 2013. English, class, and neoliberalism in South Korea. Lionel Wee, Robbie B. H. Goh, and Lisa Lim (eds.) The Politics of English: South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Asia Pacific, 287-302. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• 2012. English as border crossing: Longing and belonging in the South Korean experience. Vaughan Rapatahana and Pauline Bunce (eds.), English Language as Hydra: Its impacts on Non-English Language Cultures, 208-220. Bristol: Multilingual Matters.
• 2011. Evaluation of global English as a situated practice: Korean responses to the use of English in television commercials. Jamie Shinhee Lee and Andrew Moody (eds.), English in Asian Popular Culture, 255-269. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.
• 2010. Language games on Korean television: between globalization, nationalism, and authority. Sally Johnson and Tommaso M. Milani (eds.), Language Ideologies and Media Discourse: Texts, Practices, Politics, 61-78. London: Continuum.
• 2009. Illegitimate speakers of English: Negotiation of linguistic identity among Korean international students. In Angela Reyes and Adrienne Lo (eds.), Beyond Yellow English: Toward a Linguistic Anthropology of Asian Pacific America, pp. 195-212. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

EDITORIAL WORK ON JOURNALS

• 2017. Metapragmatics of Mobility. Special issue of Language in Society 46(1). (co-edited with Adrienne Lo)
• 2016. Researching Language and Neoliberalism. Special issue of Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 37(5). (co-edited with Hyunjung Shin)
• 2014. Anxiety, Insecurity, and Border Crossing: Language Contact in a Globalizing World. Special issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 24(2). (co-edited with Mie Hiramoto)
• 2012. Globalization, Multilingualism, and Identity in Transnational Perspective: The Case of South Korea. Special issue of Journal of Sociolinguistics 16(2). (co-edited with Adrienne Lo)
• 2011. Reframing Framing: Interaction and the Constitution of Culture and Society. Special issue of Pragmatics 21(2). (co-edited with Hiroko Takanashi)
• 2009. Public Transcripts: Entextualization and Linguistic Representation in Institutional Contexts. Special issue of Text & Talk 29(5). (co-edited with Mary Bucholtz)

ARTICLES IN JOURNALS

• 2021. Figures of personhood: Time, space, and affect as heuristics for metapragmatic analysis. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 272: 47-73. 
• 2020. Translating culture in the global workplace: Language, communication, and diversity management. Applied Linguistics 41(1): 109-128.
• 2019. Digital media communication, intellectual property, and the commodification of language: The discursive construction of fansub work. Language, Culture, and Society 1(2): 244–266.
• 2018. Mediatizing neoliberalism: The discursive construction of education’s ‘future.’ Language and Intercultural Communication 18(5): 478–489. 
• 2017. Transnationalism as interdiscursivity: Korean managers of multinational corporations talking about mobility. Language in Society 46(1): 23-38.
• 2016. Language as pure potential. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 37(5): 453-466.
• 2015. Space and language learning under the neoliberal economy. L2 Journal 7(3):78-96. (co-authored with Gao Shuang)
• 2014. Cartographies of language: Making sense of mobility among Korean transmigrants in Singapore. Language & Communication 39: 83-91.
• 2013. Metadiscursive regimes of diversity in a multinational corporation. Language in Society 42(5): 557-577.
• 2012. Transnational South Korea as a site for a sociolinguistics of globalization: Markets, timescales, neoliberalism. Journal of Sociolinguistics 16(2): 147-164. (co-authored with Adrienne Lo)
• 2011. The promise of English: Linguistic capital and the neoliberal worker in the South Korean job market. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 14(4): 443-455.
• 2011. A practice-based critique of English as a Lingua Franca. World Englishes 30(3): 360-374. (co-authored with Lionel Wee)
• 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.
• 2009. Regimenting languages on Korean television: Subtitles and institutional authority. Text & Talk 29(5): 547-570.
• 2009. Language ideologies in educational migration: Korean jogi yuhak families in Singapore. Linguistics and Education 20: 366-377. (co-authored with Bae Sohee)
• 2009. The three circles redux: A market-theoretic perspective on World Englishes. Applied Linguistics 30(3): 389-406. (co-authored with Lionel Wee)
• 2008. Two processes of reproducing monolingualism in South Korea. Sociolinguistic Studies 2(3): 331-346.