35.1298, FYI: [Reminder] Call for Papers: Localizing hallyu: The semiotics of the Korean wave in media and discourse

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Date: 24-Apr-2024
From: Mie Hiramoto [ellmh at nus.edu.sg]
Subject: [Reminder] Call for Papers: Localizing hallyu: The semiotics of the Korean wave in media and discourse


[Reminder: deadline, April 30, 2024]

Guest editors
Joyhanna Yoo (California State University, Sacramento) and Mie
Hiramoto (National University of Singapore)

Description
The explosive impact of the global popularization of cultural genres
from South Korea has come to be known as the Korean wave, or hallyu,
encapsulating various facets of daily life, from music and television
to fashion, film, and culinary trends. The rapid and broad diffusion
of genres associated with the Korean wave has largely been possible
through digitally mediated discourse and has been driven by
(trans)national corporate partnerships as well as fueled by fans’
participatory cultures. The key role of the Internet in hallyu’s
mediation further opens up genres to vehement negotiation of meaning
from fans and consumers. Digital labor such as commenting, editing,
uploading, subtitling, and sharing continues to reconfigure the
pathways through which the Korean wave is (re)produced, (re)circulated
and (re)imagined.

Despite such practices relying heavily on thecreative circulation of
language and other signs, studies of hallyu largely have not addressed
media discourse in a systematic way. Moreover, signs associated with
Korean popular culture take on different meanings as they are consumed
in different local contexts; thus, scholarly examinations of hallyu
must engage how consumption patterns adapt to and intersect with
locally meaningful categories of identities, community, and power.

By (re)examining globally circulating signs associated with Korean
popular culture, this special issue aims to center the key role of
language – both as metapragmatic ‘cultural object’ (i.e. the topics of
conversation) as well as a powerful semiotic tool through which local
signs are negotiated. The aims of this special issue are twofold: to
expand language-based studies of the internet-mediated Korean wave by
taking a semiotically informed discourse-analytic approach to this
ubiquitous global phenomenon, and secondly, to examine local
instantiations of the Korean wave in different contexts by accounting
for everyday actors’ communicative practices.

We are looking for papers that approach the study of Korean
wave-affiliated genres with a strong linguistic or semiotic approach.
Though not expected to engage a specific theoretical approach,
accepted papers will attend to at least one of the following:

-       semiotic processes such as circulation, local meaning-making,
resignification, etc.
-       (re)significations of language and other signs in context
-       the role of mediatized language/discourse in shaping Korean
popular culture
-       metapragmatic discourses (e.g. by fans) vis-à-vis Korean wave
genres

Submission guidelines
Please include the following with your submission: (1) full name,
pronouns, institution; (2) tentative title and 3-5 key words; (3) a
500-word abstract, with references; (4) a short author bio of up to
150 words that includes areas of research expertise and relevant
publications; (5) any relevant information regarding previous
publications of the work to be submitted (either in its entirety or in
significant sections) including journal articles, working papers,
chapters in edited collections, etc.

Please email your submissions to Joyhanna Yoo (j.y.garza at csus.edu) by
April 30, 2024.

Projected timeline (subject to change):
The timeline we propose is as follows:
●       500-word abstracts due April 30, 2024
●       Proposal decisions made by May 13, 2024
●       Full-length article due by August 30, 2024 (full papers are
not to exceed 8,000 words including references but not abstract)
●       Anticipated publication: spring 2025

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Applied Linguistics
                     Discourse Analysis
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)




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