Manufacturing citizenship: Metapragmatic framings of language competencies in media images of mixed race men in South Korea

Discourse and Society

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 440-457

  Lo, Adrienne ^a   Kim, Jenna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

adoptee; citizenship; competence; globalization; Korean American; masculinity; media; mixed race; newspaper; South Korea; television; transnationalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960571370     PISSN: 09579265     EISSN: 14603624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957926510395834     Document Type: Article

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