This paper is intended to explore the otherness of ‘non-mainstream’ graduate students specializing in applied linguistics at various departments of English language and literature in Korea. Drawing on Honneth’s theory of recognition and its ideology, it attempted to understand the way their ‘professional identities’ are constructed both within and without the related academic communities. Through interviews and reflection journals, the lived stories of research participants illustrated that their trajectories of growth were not a transmission of knowledge and skills in applied linguistics, and that Honneth’s threefold conceptualization of intersubjective recognition (love, rights, solidarity) was usefully applied to the sociopolitical inquiry of ‘becoming professional.’ They did not feel a sense of affection, were not respected as rights-holders, and did not have mutual esteem and solidarity. The non-mainstream students strived for recognition in the graduate program by voicing their emotions in their qualitative research papers and improving their limited proficiency of English which, however, led to ‘uncritical’ conformity. They lost the emancipatory struggle for their independent and scholarly selves. The model of mutual recognition is expected to show good potential as an analytic tool for understanding the motivational and justificatory basis for social struggles. Further research is suggested to examine how Honneth’s theory can help in understanding people in different disciplines.

I. 서론
II. 선행연구
    1. (예비)전문가의 정체성 연구: COP 문헌으로부터
    2. 인정 욕망과 인정 이데올로기: 호네트 이론으로부터
III. 연구방법
    1. 연구참여자
    2. 자료 수집과 분석
IV. 연구결과 및 논의
    1. 인정과 무시: 세가지 인정 형태로부터
    2. 인정 획득을 위한 분투
    3. 인정의 이데올로기화
V. 요약 및 추후 과제
참고문헌

• 신동일(중앙대학교) | Shin, Dongil