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- Title
Perceptions of Konglish by English language users: An analysis of a reaction video and its comments on YouTube.
- Authors
Soojin Ahn
- Abstract
This study aims to analyze how Konglish (i.e., Korean English) is perceived by subjects in a reaction video and its commenters on YouTube. Based on the netnographic approach, a short video that shows native English speakers’ reactions to Konglish words on the selected YouTube channel Korean Englishman was analyzed through critical discourse analysis. About 2500 comments of the video, which were written by various English language users both in English and Korean, were also analyzed using thematic analysis. The analysis showed that the video mainly presented two typical figures of personhood (Park 2021a, b) within the discourse of Konglish: the native speaker reacting to Konglish with puzzlement and amusement and the overhearer of Konglish trying to enlighten the Korean English user on the native speaker’s way of using English. However, an atypical figure of the native speaker identifying the systematic rules of making Konglish words was also presented. The analysis of the comments further showed that most of the English language users were aligned with the figure of the overhearer of Konglish, whereas some of them demonstrated critical views on delegitimization or self-deprecation reflecting the notion of Koreans lacking in English competence. The findings of this study provide important implications for understanding the discourse around the issue of Konglish as a cultural practice and using interactive online platforms as mediational tools for language users’ learning and discussions.
- Subjects
GOOGLE Inc.; ENGLISH language; CRITICAL discourse analysis; KOREAN language; NATIVE language; ENGLISH language writing; ONLINE education
- Publication
Linguistic Research, 2023, Vol 40, p151
- ISSN
1229-1374
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.17250/khisli.40..202309.006