This study examines the interactional dynamics revealed through teasing humor in the context of a startup business meeting. Using a quasi-conversation analytic approach to details of talk, as well as ethnographic information concerning the community of practice, this study aims to illuminate the construction of professional identities shown in members' participation in teasing humor. The dataset consists of three video-recorded weekly business meetings of a startup (210 minutes) and a supplementary interview and observation notes. The analyses show that, in this business context, the members' identities (e.g., the CEO, the co-founders versus non-co-founders) were revealed in the dynamics of participation in teasing humor. Teasing humor was also found to contribute to finding creative solutions to challenging issues under discussion. The non-co-founders, in particular, found opportunities to participate in the major business discourse through this teasing. By participating in the teasing segments, they were able to present themselves as legitimate members of the startup. The findings are discussed to highlight the sociolinguistic norms of a professional community in creating a constructive business culture.

This paper focuses on the construction of authentic rapper identities among Korean rappers throughout the history of rap in Korea. The first part of this study describes the historical development of linguistic practices and available linguistic resources that were commonly exercised and exploited by Korean rappers over time, while the latter part demonstrates how those practices and resources become components constituting and constructing various rapper identities through Eckert's (2008) framework of “indexical field.” The exploration of the Korean rappers' linguistic practices reported that Korean rappers have developed a number of creative and innovative practices throughout the history of Korean rap and hip-hop. The second part revealed that Korean rappers' innovations and creative practices have become more and more complicated over time for more sophisticated rapper identity construction and projection.

This study examines multiple language-identities embedded within the emerging professional teacher identity of international graduate students teaching Korean as a foreign language (KFL). Situated in the context of Korean classrooms at an American university, this study draws data from two rounds of interviews with three instructors (one nonnative and two native Korean speakers). The qualitative analysis reveals that their professional teacher identity revolves around multiple language identities grounded in their L1 cultural norms and perceived English language proficiencies. Their views and undertakings of local cultural norms indicate the varying ways in which these instructors projected their L1 and L2 identities onto their emergent teacher identity. Given the vexed relationship between notions of teacher authority in her L1 Japanese culture and the local norms of interaction, the nonnative teacher maintained authority by establishing a certain distance from her students. By contrast, the native teachers accommodated the local understandings of teacher authority and (re)shaped their view of a teacher to the locally-defined professionalism, a teacher like ‘a friend’. The negotiated identity of the KFL teachers improved classroom interaction and engendered positive view about teaching. The findings are discussed to highlight foreign language teacher identity in a teacher education program.

As emphasis has increased on English as an international language and on the globalized image of universities, the number of native English speaker teachers (NETs) has also increased in Korean universities. From the poststructuralist view, teacher identity is constructed through participation in valued activities of the community of practice, and it is not fixed but constantly negotiated through the interaction of the context (Wenger, 1998). While previous studies focused on nonnative English speaker teachers’ identity construction, little attention has been paid to NETs in the EFL context. Considering the need to explore teacher identity from recent theoretical perspectives, the present study investigates how NETs negotiate conflicting identities and construct their teacher identities in the Korean university context. The findings show the NETs constructed multiple identities of an English educator, a collaborative volunteer, a non-tenured instructor, and a cultural and linguistic outsider, and they legitimize their professor identity through their participation in the present and imagined community of competent teachers. The findings support the claim that teacher identity is embedded in the sociocultural context that interacts with the individual agency in making sense of who they are. Implications and suggestions of the study are addressed based on the findings.

This qualitative study, grounded in the sociocultural perspective, attempts to explore a Korean English teacher’s identity construction by employing a self-study, through narrative inquiry. As a self-study, the participant, Sofia, will also be the researcher. Data from her teacher life story narrative and reflective journals were analyzed to see how she reconstructs her identity through reflection of her own experiences. The study revealed four major themes showing the identity formation of the participant: (1) identity formation by resisting identity assumptions or stereotypes; (2) identity formation through influence of context; (3) identity formation through previous learning experiences; and (4) identity formation through conceptualizing teacher as professional. Based on these findings, the present study generates implications for teacher education practice and future research.

The study explores the identity construction of non-regular English conversation teachers (non-RECTs) in an elementary and a middle school in Korea. Drawing on positioning theory and the notion of community of practice, the study illustrates how non-RECTs resist, modify, and reconstruct their teacher identity through positioning themselves and others, and different modes of participation in the school contexts. It is a three-year longitudinal study with two female non-RECTs. The primary data gathered through interviews and informal talks, documents, and e-mails were also included for triangulation purposes. The findings suggest that the non-RECTs self-positioned themselves as qualified teachers who can effectively implement communicative language teaching into the classroom, but their positioning was challenged and rejected by regular teachers. The participants resisted their marginalized positions as temporary instructors and claimed their legitimacy by establishing themselves as positive contributors to the communicative curriculum. The findings show the non-RECTs’ identity construction is a struggle between the different views on legitimacy and a negotiation among multiple and conflicting identities.

With the development of economic globalization and political multi-polarization, the regional economic integration has become a great trend. Developing slowly of regional cooperation in northeast Asia reflects the great differences of culture identity. While the economic integration is developing vigorously worldwide, the northeast Asia falls behind. This situation not only means the economic interests contradictions of the regional countries, but also means that there is not a cultural identity in this area. If we want to prompt the region integration process we should strengthen the construction of the regional cultural identity. This paper analyzes the reasons of lacking of cultural identity in northeast Asia and point out the advantages and disadvantages of conutrcting northeast Asian cultural identity.

Academic identity of graduate students is of considerable importance in their lives in graduate school and the process in which they became academics. In this study, we aimed to examine how education graduate students in South Korea construct their academic identities. In pursuing this purpose, we included maste.r students as well as doctoral students. In addition to this, we focused on the academic identity of part-time students, in this case mostly teachers. Semi-structured interviews with nine graduate students in a university were used to understand their experiences. Analysis procedure included open coding, axial coding and selective coding of transcriptions. The results indicated that the criterion to distinguish undergraduate, master's, and doctoral experiences was the degree of autonomy in academic work. There were also significant differences between doing a master's and a doctoral degree, including the relationship with the advisor and students ' perception of academic work. In addition, this study found that part-timers experienced floating identities, and explored factors that influenced their identity formation. The result of this study is expected to contribute to improving formal and informal educational practices in graduate schools of education in South Korea and facilitate intercultural conversation on graduate education.

The presentation reports on a study of construction of teacher identity in Hong Kong under rapid education reforms and changing political environment. The presentation draws on insights from recent work of discourse theory and also results of a larger longitudinal study on teacher identity of two teams of language teachers in a relatively new primary school. A case study of a young Chinese language teacher exemplifies how teacher uses narrative resources to construct and negotiate teacher identities through social interaction. Findings of the case study underscore the ‘authorial stance’ of teachers in the process of construction of teacher identity.

The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea 14(2). The purpose of this paper is to investigate two Korean children's understanding of language and identity issues and their feelings while residing in the United States. Korean academic families residing in the US temporarily but for extended periods of three to seven years encounter a complex set of issues with regard to their children's language use, cultural development, and identity development. Data include child interviews, child observations, and parent interviews. Gee's (2001) four ways to view identity were employed as a framework to analyze the child-participants' narratives. Based on the interviews and observations with the participating children, it seems that the children who spoke Korean at home at least with their parents, were vulnerable to the stress of competing forces. They were forced to integrate to a new linguistic and social environment as soon as they went to an English-speaking school. At the same time, they were expected to maintain not only their Korean language skills but also cultural values from their parents. The children seem to have gone through an identity crisis. Having a full command of two languages and accommodating two sets of cultural norms comprised their daily struggles.

이 글은 미국에 거주하는 한인 결혼이주여성과 그 자녀의 언어 사용 양상 및 정체성 형성 과정을 탐색하려는 목적을 가지고 있다. 이를 위해 2011년부터 2014년까지 이루어진 질적 사례 연구를 통해, 연구 참여자들의 사용 언어(한국어, 영어)에 대한 인식, 시간의 흐 름에 따른 인식의 변화, 그 과정에서 형성되고 변화된 정체성의 양상에 관심을 두고 연구 를 수행하였다. 연구 결과, 언어와 정체성 간에는 긴밀하고도 유기적인 관계가 있음이 확인 되었으며, 이는 연구 참여자들의 사례를 통해 보다 구체적으로 드러났다. 또한 언어 사용과 정체성 형성은 유동적이고 가변적이어서, 시간과 환경에 따라 복잡한 양상으로 변화한다는 사실이 확인되었다. 마지막으로 언어 사용과 정체성 형성에 있어 결혼이주여성과 자녀는 상호 간 중요한 위치에 있었으나, 이들의 언어 사용-정체성 형성은 동일한 양상으로 전개되 지 않음이 발견되었다. 이상의 연구 결과를 토대로, 이 글은 한국 다문화교육을 위한 시사 점을 제시하였다.

많은 내러티브 연구들의 관심은 정체성의 이야기에 관한 이해로 집약된다고 볼 수 있다. 본고에서는 이야기의 주체로서 정체성을 방법론적 개인주의가 아닌 방법론적 상황주의 관점에서 바라보았을 때 어떤 새로운 이해를 줄 수 있는지 살펴보고자 한다. 방법론적 상황주의는 상징적 상호작용으로부터 시작하여 민속방법론 등에 이르기까지 미시적인 사회적 상호작용 연구 장르에서 찾아볼 수 있다. 본고에서는 그 가운데 민속방법론을 중심으로 한 방법론적 상황주의에 입각해서 이야기 주체로서의 개인의 정체성과 그 일상적 구성성에 관해 되짚어 보고자 한다. 민속방법론은 상식과 실제적 행위가 어떻게 일상의 생활세계를 구성하는지에 관심을 둔 연구영역이다. 방법론적 상황주의는 이야기의 주체로서 개인의 정체성 그리고 그 구성의 디테일한 과정에 관해 새로운 이해의 길을 열어줄 것으로 본다.