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With the international rise of K-pop culture, this analysis of BTS and the languages surrounding and related to their music, fans, and media content provides a unique look into how languages are localized, hybridized, and utilized beyond popular entertainment.
Sommario
Introduction
Part 1: Songs and Lyrics 1."Hip-hop boyband" that resonates: How BTS lyrics comfort and empower 2. "I got you/You got me": Transitivity analysis of BTS fan and healing songs 3. A corpus-driven genre analysis of BTS lyrics
Part 2: Multilingual Communication 4. "I purple you!": BTS's ELF and translanguaging practices 5. BTS's and ARMYs' dynamic translanguaging on social media 6. Creative disruption of linguistic hierarchy: "Brilliant, tremendous, and sensational" multilingual communication 7. Cultivating
uri community: Translanguaging practice in Japanese fan communities
Part 3: Multimodal Practices and Engagement 8. BTS reaction videos as Third Space for identity negotiation 9. Making space: Mapping the power of BTS pop-up markets 10. "Do you want to listen to my Seoul?": A multimodal discourse analysis of BTS advertisements Epilogue
Info autore
Joowon Suh is Senior Lecturer and Director of the Korean Language Program in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University. She coauthored the
KLEAR Integrated Korean Workbook series and revised its Textbook Series 2nd and 3rd editions. She served as the president of the American Association of Teachers of Korean (2018-2021). Her research interests include Korean linguistics and language pedagogy, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, and pragmatics.
Eun Sung Park is Professor in the English Department at Sogang University. Her research interests include SLA, asset-based pedagogy for refugee-background students, and multilingual users' ELF and translanguaging practices. She has published articles in
Applied Linguistics,
Journal of Language, Identity, & Education,
Language and Intercultural Communication,
Language Learning,
Language Teaching Research, and
TESOL Quarterly, among others. She also coedited
English Education at the Tertiary Level in Asia (2017) and authored
Instructed SLA: A Practical Guide for Teachers (2020).
Riassunto
With the international rise of K-pop culture, this analysis of BTS and the languages surrounding and related to their music, fans, and media content provides a unique look into how languages are localized, hybridized, and utilized beyond popular entertainment.
