이 연구는 텍스트마이닝 방법을 활용하여 팡팡의 우한일기 텍스트를 해체, 조합 하고 페어클로프의 비판적 담론 분석(Critical Discourse Analysis) 모형을 적용, 우 한일기의 담론 구조와 양상을 분석하였다. 분석 결과, 우한일기 ‘제목+본문’ 구조 에서 정보성 담론과 의견과 주장 담론을 선택적 배치하였다. ‘武汉’, ‘疫情’ 등 단어와 ‘愤怒, ‘武汉人’, ‘医生朋友’, ‘极左’ 등 단어가 핵심어로 선정되었다. 담론적 실천은 1. ‘우한 봉쇄 상황’ 정보성 담론, 2.‘우한 지역의 코로나 상황’ 정보성 담론, 3.‘대응 실패 책임론’ 의견, 주장의 담론, 4.‘봉쇄된 시민의 일상과 비극’ 정보와 주장 혼합 담론, 5. ‘반대 의견자의 공격’ 상호텍스트성 담론이 도출되었다. 반대 의견의 ‘极左’ 담론은 텍스트 밖에서 ‘증오와 갈등’ 담론으로 탈·접합되었다.

Given the view of tests as mechanisms within a language policy framework (Shohamy, 2006), Korean proficiency tests are not only used as a way to measure language knowledge, but rather as tools to impose national ideologies about langage use and diversity. The field of Korean language testing needs to embrace sociopolitical dimensions, and engage what is going on value and consequence in test development and validation. By drawing upon a combined approach of Messick’s (1989) validity framework, Fairclough’s (2001) Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), Bachman and Palmer’s Assessment Use Arugment (AUA), this study aims to illustrate how the practice of testing can be discursively interpreted as a multilayered phenomenon, constituted through discourse. It discussed the applicability of AUA’s two claims (decisions, consequences) to the validation of Korean language proficiency or related certification testing for immigrants with foci of value implications and consequences. The interconnectedness of test validation and CDA is modelled through the procedure of Faircough’s (2001) analytic methodology. In an effort to illustrate that language testing is discursively value-laded, this study not only offer a theoretical and methodological addition to the current inquiry of test validation, but also re-emphasize that language testing is sociopolitically driven from a discursive angle.

Park, SooHyeon & Shin, Dongil. 2017. “A Critical Discourse Analysis on Immigrated Students' Language Competence”. The sociolinguistics Jouranl of Korea 25(3). 93~138. As one of the most important sites in which language policy is articulated and through which it is disseminated, printed media reportage plays important roles in agenda setting. Drawing on Fairclough's critical discourse analysis, this study examines the effects of intertextuality on the discursive construction of immigrated students and their language competency in selected Korean newspapers. It also aims to show how the newspapers employ specific discursive strategies to represent the immigrated students and their monolingual/bilingual competence from the neoliberal perspectives. Focusing on genre, style, and discourses, which are respectively associated with representational, identificational, and actional meaning of discourse, this study found that different discursive strategies were interwoven, and that they drew on deeply entrenched ideological beliefs about language and society, such as, language as language as problems, rights, capital, and resources It was concluded that the discourses in Korean media could be conceptualized in two intersecting continua informing social integration ideological debates.

Kim, KaHyun & Shin, Dongil. 2016. “A Critical Discourse Analysis on Global Talents and Their English Competence”. The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea 24(3). 249~280. The purpose of this study is to examine the media discourse on global talents and their English competence through critical discourse analysis. The special feature articles of the JoongAng daily newspaper on ‘global talent’ were traced and analyzed. The articles of JoongAng Sunday magazine on the global talent, which were published between January 2008 and March 2016, were also examined. The analysis drew upon the van Dijk’s (2009b) sociocognitive approach. By understanding how social cognition played its role in formative process of the discourse with linguistic features, the dialectical relationship of the dicourse and the society was inferred. Findings revealed the schema of the global companies, which counted human resources as the goal of management and essential part of their success, empathized individuals’ role and led them to make efforts. Microscopic linguistic features formed global talent discourses with being influenced and affecting the macroscopic structure. The media discourse often valued self-improvement, which involved neoliberalistic orientation of global companies.

The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea 14(2). Since the IMF crisis devastated Korea, the tide of globalization has changed every aspect of Korean society. This overwhelming trend of ‘globalization' has been affecting the educational sector, especially in terms of the 'English-learning boom' in Korea. This phenomenon has been criticized by educators because the excessive and reckless expenditure on ‘English-learning' in the private sector has been yielding far-reaching and undesirable effects on society. This paper aims at focusing on the issue of the ‘English-learning boom' of Korea, by analyzing it in terms of a critical discourse analysis. It takes the perspective of post-colonial discourse analysis by criticizing neo-liberalism and social-Darwinism, which are whimpering around Korea with the ideology of globalization. To do so, this paper takes two examples of the ‘English-learning' fever in Korean society: the boom of ‘English village' construction and the anxiety over ‘early exposure to English'. Regarding these two examples, this paper attempts to analyze them in the lens of ‘social symbolization of discourse,' which could explicate the trajectory of how social discourses are idealized, symbolized, represented, and reproduced. This paper argues that the ‘English-learning boom' of Korea is a product of complicated construction of social discourse, which is strongly influenced by the neoliberal ideology of linguistic and cultural imperialism.

이 연구는 다문화 가정을 소재로 한 텔레비전 휴먼 다큐멘터리를 통해, 다문화 가정에 대한 어떠한 담론이 구성되고 있는지를 탐색하는 데 목적이 있다. 이를 위해 본 연구에서는 EBS의 <다문화 고부 열전>을 대상으로 이야기의 서사 구조와 전략을 분석하였다. 인물의 제시 방식과 부재, 이야기의 시간과 공간, 그리고 담화의 서술 행위 등을 종합적으로 살펴봄으로써 다문화 주체들을 표상하는 방식과 미디어가 제시하는 다문화 가치를 파악하였다. 각 에피소드는 시어머니와 며느리 두 여성에게 초점이 맞추어져 있고, 다른 등장인물들은 평면적으로 그려져 있거나 부재하고 있었다. 이는 가족이라는 울타리를 지켜야 할 책임이 여성에게 있음을 내포한다. 담화의 서술행위에서는 며느리를 ‘외부자’, ‘떠나온 자’, ‘정착한 자’로, 시어머니를 ‘지지자’, ‘반대자’, ‘동행자’로 담론을 형성하고 있었다. 여기에는 한국사회가 이주민 혹은 여성을 바라보는 편향이 매개 되어 있다. 또한, 내레이터를 통해 이 담론을 강화하는 경향이 있었다.

이 연구에서는 Fairclough의 비판적 담론분석 모델을 적용하여 서울시 무상급식 정책결정과정에 나타난 정책담론들이 수행하는 역할 및 특성을 규명하는데 목적을 두고 있다. 이를 위해 담론 투쟁과정에서 부각된 담론들에 대한 신문기사의 텍스트 분석을 통해 진보와 보수의 논리를 기술하고, 양자 간 대립하며 전개하고 있는 담론을 해석하였다. 또한, 사회적 실천관계에서는 정책이 형성되는 상황적 맥락과 결정이 이루어지는 제도적 맥락을 살펴보았다. 연구결과에 따른 이 연구의 결론 요약하면 다음과 같다. 첫째, 서울시 무상급식 정책결정과정에서 정책담론들은 진보와 보수 세력들의 정치적 이해관계와 결합하며 논쟁이 된 것으로 볼 수 있다. 둘째, 무상급식 정책결정과정에서의 정책행위자들, 즉 진보와 보수는 자신들의 논리를 정당화하기 위한 다양한 행동전략을 구사했으며 이 과정에서 정책담론이 중심적인 역할을 하였다. 셋째, 서울시 무상급식에 관한 정책결정은 정책행위자들의 이해와 타협에 의한 결정이라기보다는 담론투쟁에 의한 결과라 할 수 있다.