Drawing on examples from 20+ sites across Korea and Koreatowns around the world, this book asks readers to rethink assumptions around what culture is and what it is assumed to look like in the context of globalization. It will appeal to anyone interested in the globalization of language and culture.
Drawing on examples from 20+ sites across Korea and Koreatowns around the world, this book asks readers to rethink assumptions around what culture is and what it is assumed to look like in the context of globalization. It will appeal to anyone interested in the globalization of language and culture.
Jerry Won Lee is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Irvine. He is author of The Politics of Translingualism (Routledge, 2018), co-editor of Translinguistics (Routledge, 2019), and editor of The Sociolinguistics of Global Asias (Routledge, 2022).
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List of Figures Acknowledgements A Note on the Text Introduction I.1. Language, Culture, and Caterpillars from a Bird's Eye View I.2. Translingualism in/as Space I.3. Cosmopolitanism and Cultural Difference I.4. Semiotic Precarity I.5. Book Overview 1. Translingualism and the Locations of Culture 1.1. Where is Culture? 1.2. Translingual Inversion 1.3. National Imaginaries and Representational Precarity 1.4. National Imaginaries and the Logic of Seriality 1.5. Translingual Inversion and the Location of National Imaginaries 2. Locating Global Korea 2.1. Korea as Ice Hockey Team 2.2. Korea as Nation as Discourse 2.3. Global Korea Or, Korea Globally 2.4. Locating the Locations of Global Korea 2.5. Conclusion: Korea via the Globe 3. Encountering the Unfamiliar: Languaging Culture 3.1. Unfamiliar Language 3.2. Korea as Language? 3.3. Weird Language 3.4. Weird Translations 3.5. Weird Transliterations 3.6. Weird Translingualizations 3.7. Conclusion: Negotiable Language, Locatable Language 4. Visible Nation: Scaling Culture 4.1. Street Fighter II as Nations and Nationalism 4.2. Scale as Culture 4.3. Culture as Color: How Red Became Korean 4.4. Koryo as Chronotope of Korea 4.5. Culture as Sample Image: Disputed Territory as Caricatural Geography 4.6. Conclusion: Is It Possible to See the Nation? 5. Semiotic Excess: Tracing Culture 5.1. Cool Story, Hanguk 5.2. Unexpectedness and the Traces of Culture 5.3. KoreatownTM 5.4. X-Modernity 5.5. Global Korea as Toiletscape 5.6. Conclusion: Korea as Trace Conclusion: More Locations of Culture C.1. Modular Imaginaries Or, Citizen Sociolinguistics as a Human Right C.2. Departing Thoughts References Index.
List of Figures Acknowledgements A Note on the Text Introduction I.1. Language, Culture, and Caterpillars from a Bird's Eye View I.2. Translingualism in/as Space I.3. Cosmopolitanism and Cultural Difference I.4. Semiotic Precarity I.5. Book Overview 1. Translingualism and the Locations of Culture 1.1. Where is Culture? 1.2. Translingual Inversion 1.3. National Imaginaries and Representational Precarity 1.4. National Imaginaries and the Logic of Seriality 1.5. Translingual Inversion and the Location of National Imaginaries 2. Locating Global Korea 2.1. Korea as Ice Hockey Team 2.2. Korea as Nation as Discourse 2.3. Global Korea Or, Korea Globally 2.4. Locating the Locations of Global Korea 2.5. Conclusion: Korea via the Globe 3. Encountering the Unfamiliar: Languaging Culture 3.1. Unfamiliar Language 3.2. Korea as Language? 3.3. Weird Language 3.4. Weird Translations 3.5. Weird Transliterations 3.6. Weird Translingualizations 3.7. Conclusion: Negotiable Language, Locatable Language 4. Visible Nation: Scaling Culture 4.1. Street Fighter II as Nations and Nationalism 4.2. Scale as Culture 4.3. Culture as Color: How Red Became Korean 4.4. Koryo as Chronotope of Korea 4.5. Culture as Sample Image: Disputed Territory as Caricatural Geography 4.6. Conclusion: Is It Possible to See the Nation? 5. Semiotic Excess: Tracing Culture 5.1. Cool Story, Hanguk 5.2. Unexpectedness and the Traces of Culture 5.3. KoreatownTM 5.4. X-Modernity 5.5. Global Korea as Toiletscape 5.6. Conclusion: Korea as Trace Conclusion: More Locations of Culture C.1. Modular Imaginaries Or, Citizen Sociolinguistics as a Human Right C.2. Departing Thoughts References Index.
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