Transnational South Korea as a site for a sociolinguistics of globalization: Markets, timescales, neoliberalism

Journal of Sociolinguistics

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 147-164

  Sung Yul Park, Joseph ^a   Lo, Adrienne ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

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

Author keywords

English; Globalization; Korea; Multilingualism; Neoliberalism; Transnationalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859828560     PISSN: 13606441     EISSN: 14679841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9841.2011.00524.x     Document Type: Article

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