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  • In Reunion

    Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Communication of Family

    “Do you know your real parents?” is a question many adoptees are asked. In In Reunion, Sara Docan-Morgan probes the basic notions of family, adoption, and parenthood by exploring initial meetings and ongoing relationships that transnational Korean adoptees have had with their birth parents and other birth family members. Drawing from qualitative interviews with adult Korean adoptees in the United ... Leer más

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  • Korean Diaspora across the World

    Homeland in History, Memory, Imagination, Media, and Reality

    Series series Korean Communities across the World
    This edited volume brings together a wide-ranging account of the Korean diaspora, focusing on how “homeland” is understood, invoked, and performed in everyday life and public culture.Spanning sites from Sakhalin and Japan to Chile, Kazakhstan, the United States, and Latin America, the contributors show how diasporic Koreans express belonging through family narratives, community life, and media, ... Leer más

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    Why We Judge Others by the Way They Talk—and the Costs of This Hidden Bias

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  • Interpreting As Interaction

    Series series Language In Social Life
    Interpreting in Interaction provides an account of interpreter-mediated communication, exploring the responsibilities of the interpreter and the expectations of both the interpreter and of other participants involved in the interaction. The book examines ways of understanding the distribution of responsibility of content and the progression of talk in interpreter-mediated institutional face-to ... Leer más

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  • Rooted in Adoption

    A Collection of Adoptee Reflections

    "Rooted in Adoption: A Collection of Adoptee Reflections" brings together the voices and lived experiences of adoptees, offering an honest and deeply human look at adoption from the perspective of those who have lived it. Through personal reflections on childhood, family, identity, love, loss, difficult emotions, search and reunion, media, relationships, and personal growth, adoptees share ... Leer más

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  • Reading in Asian Languages

    Making Sense of Written Texts in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean

    Reading in Asian Languages is rich with information about how literacy works in the non-alphabetic writing systems (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) used by hundreds of millions of people and refutes the common Western belief that such systems are hard to learn or to use. The contributors share a comprehensive view of reading as construction of meaning which they show is fully applicable to character ... Leer más

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  • Narrative Inquiry

    A Dynamic Approach

    Narrative Inquiry provides both a new theoretical orientation and a set of practical techniques that students and experienced researchers can use to conduct narrative research. Explaining the principles of what she terms "dynamic narrating," author Colette Daiute provides an approach to narrative inquiry that builds on practices of daily life where we use storytelling to connect with other people, ... Leer más

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  • Kongish

    Translanguaging and the Commodification of an Urban Dialect

    de Tong King Lee ...
    Series series Elements in Applied Linguistics
    This Element introduces Kongish as a translingual and multimodal urban dialect emerging in Hong Kong in recent years and still in the making. Through the lens of translanguaging and linguistic commodification, and using the popular Facebook page Kongish Daily as a case in point, the study outlines the semiotic profile of Kongish. It examines how Kongish communications draw on a full range of ... Leer más

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  • Birth Mothers and Transnational Adoption Practice in South Korea

    Virtual Mothering

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    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
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  • Invisible Asians

    Korean American Adoptees, Asian American Experiences, and Racial Exceptionalism

    Series series Asian American Studies Today
    The first Korean adoptees were powerful symbols of American superiority in the Cold War; as Korean adoption continued, adoptees' visibility as Asians faded as they became a geopolitical success story—all-American children in loving white families. In Invisible Asians, Kim Park Nelson analyzes the processes by which Korean American adoptees’ have been rendered racially invisible, and how that ... Leer más

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  • English Pronunciation Models in a Globalized World

    Accent, Acceptability and Hong Kong English

    de Andrew Sewell ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in World Englishes
    This book explores the topics of English accents and pronunciation. It highlights their connections with several important issues in the study of English in the world, including intelligibility, identity, and globalization. The unifying strand is provided by English pronunciation models: what do these models consist of, and why? The focus on pronunciation teaching is combined with sociolinguistic ... Leer más

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