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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Shin, Jaran

Titel

Recognizing Discursive Incompatibilities

Ist Teil von

• Expanding Ecological Approaches to Language, Culture, and Identity, 2024, p.79-102

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

United Kingdom: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In the context of globalizing Korea, an increasing number of multicultural children claim to be Korean, and a variety of institutional efforts have been undertaken to integrate them into society. However, various discourses converge in the interplay between purity and difference, generating multiple contradictions and fragmented ruptures within various contact zones (see Chapter 1). Multicultural children attain a more formally recognized social status as Koreans, yet are simultaneously exposed to varying forms of stereotypes due to their embodiment of multiple languages and cultures. Amidst the backdrop of the prevailing official discourses that seemingly celebrate diversity but subdue the dialogic potential of who they are (Bakhtin, 1981), each of the focal teenagers is haunted by the multicultural category imposed upon them. As they engage with how they are (re)presented on the Korean peninsula and reflect on what it means to be multicultural, they relativize their parents' context-based decisions and begin to make connections between their own experiences and the dynamics of power within society.