37.1008, Confs: 2026 International Conference on Semiosis of Koreanness and Beyond: Language, Culture, and Identity (Korea, South)

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Subject: 37.1008, Confs: 2026 International Conference on Semiosis of Koreanness and Beyond: Language, Culture, and Identity (Korea, South)

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Date: 10-Mar-2026
From: Mikyung Ahn [mkahn at hufs.ac.kr]
Subject: 2026 International Conference on Semiosis of Koreanness and Beyond: Language, Culture, and Identity


2026 International Conference on Semiosis of Koreanness and Beyond:
Language, Culture, and Identity
Short Title: SKB 2026

Date: 07-Nov-2026 - 07-Nov-2026
Location: Seoul, Korea, South
Meeting URL:
https://sites.google.com/hufs.ac.kr/2026internationalconference

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Cognitive Science;
Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics; Typology
Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     Korean (kor)

Submission Deadline: 30-Jun-2026

The Semiosis Research Center and the Language Research Institute at
Hankuk University of Foreign Studies are pleased to announce the
international conference “Semiosis of Koreanness and Beyond: Language,
Culture, and Identity.”
This conference brings together scholars from linguistics, semiotics,
discourse studies, anthropology, literary studies, media studies, and
related disciplines to explore how identities are semiotically
constructed, negotiated, and transformed across diverse social and
cultural contexts.
While the conference takes Koreanness as an important point of
departure, the term “Beyond” signals a broader intellectual
commitment. We aim to move beyond essentialist and nation-bound
conceptions of identity and to investigate the dynamic semiotic
processes through which identities are formed, indexed, performed, and
reconfigured in linguistic and cultural practice. Koreanness serves
not as a fixed object of study but as an analytical lens through which
broader processes of identity construction may be examined.
We welcome comparative and cross-cultural perspectives that examine
how identities—national, cultural, transnational, digital, or
diasporic—are semiotically produced and negotiated both within and
beyond Korea.
Suggested Themes (including but not limited to):
 - Linguistic and semiotic constructions of Koreanness in discourse,
interaction, literature, and media
 - Stance, indexicality, and the performance of identity
 - Semiotic theory and cross-cultural meaning-making
 - Literary representations of nationhood, memory, and belonging
 - Ethnographic and anthropological approaches to identity and
community
 - Language ideologies and cultural practices
 - Multimodality, digital communication, and identity construction
 - Comparative and cross-cultural perspectives on cultural and
national identity
 - Identity beyond the nation-state: transnational, diasporic, and
hybrid formations
Invited Speakers:
 - Lucien Brown (Monash University, Australia)
 - Seongha Rhee (Mahidol University, Thailand)
 - Hongbing Yu (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada)
Instructions for Abstract Submission:
We invite submissions of abstracts (maximum 300 words in length) for
one of the following two categories:
 - Oral presentations (20-minute presentation + 5-minute discussion)
 - Posters (for a dedicated poster session)
Abstracts should be written in English or Korean (An abstract written
in Korean should include an English abstract).
The abstract must be submitted electronically, using the electronic
submission website accessible from:
https://forms.gle/cUpYcJCqtMWxdFRWA
Submissions are limited to one individual and one joint abstract per
author, or two joint abstracts per author.
Important Dates:
 - Abstract submission deadline: June 30, 2026
 - Notification of acceptance: July 30, 2026
 - Registration deadline: October 1, 2026
 - Conference date: November 7, 2026
Contact Information:
 - Conference website:
https://sites.google.com/hufs.ac.kr/2026internationalconference
 - Email contact: hksemiosis at hufs.ac.kr



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