Language Attitudes of English­Korean Bilinguals: A Qualitative Analysis of Self­Reports via Interviews

Jeongeun Lee (이정은)

Language Attitudes of EnglishKorean Bilinguals: A Qualitative Analysis of SelfReports via Interviews

The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea
Abbr : 사회언어학
2013, 21(2), pp.71-92
Publisher : The Sociolinguistic Society Of Korea
Research Area : Humanities > Linguistics

Jeongeun Lee ¹

¹연세대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

This study observes how second generation English-Korean bilinguals display language attitudes during an unstructured interview, and how they construct their identities in narratives. The interviews were about their language use, culture, and identities. The interviewees made use of specific types of speech acts as part of their response strategies. The analysis focused on these speech acts and the positioning of themselves and others. Findings of the qualitative analysis revealed the interviewees′language attitudes, especially when they defined their mother tongue and explained the communicative situations and language choices. This study found that the interviewees have developed negative or indifferent attitudes towards verbal exchanges with native Koreans because their choice to speak Korean in conflict-ridden communication led to positioning of themselves as inarticulate, rule-breaking, berated, and alien. Their failure to achieve cooperation and recognition when they communicated in Korean had negative influences on their self-esteem, which significantly impacted the use of Korean as heritage language, and the formation of their identities as the second generation Kyopos. (185)

KEYWORDS

interview narrative, self-report, language attitude, identity, self-esteem

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.

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