KoHL/콜, or the Korean Heritage Language Research Group, gathers scholars from the field of linguistics and other language-oriented disciplines who are pursuing research on Korean language/linguistics, Korean as a heritage language, and the language practices of peoples and communities of Korean heritage. 콜 or /kʰol/ is a Konglish colloquialism for “call,” meaning “Let’s do it, deal!” It derives from the expression “call” in poker, where you match a bet or a raise that has been placed. KoHL/콜 hosts research meetings in a roundtable format, designed for emerging and established scholars to share research-in-progress and receive feedback in a welcoming, though critical and intellectually productive, environment.
KoHL/콜 is hosted by the UCI Critical Inquiries in Multilingualism Research Cluster, and co-sponsored by:
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- UCI Program in Global Languages & Communication
- UCI Center for Critical Korean Studies
- UCI Department of Language Science
- UCI Department of East Asian Studies
- UCI Department of Asian American Studies
The founding members of KoHL/콜 include:
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- Andrew Cheng, Project Lead (UC Irvine)
- Steve Cho (CSU Northridge)
- Lisa Jeon Ox (LanGo Institute)
- Ha Ram (Hannah) Kim (UC Irvine)
- Ji Young Kim (UCLA)
- Jerry Lee (UC Irvine)
- Sarah Sok (UC Irvine)
For more information about KoHL, please contact Andrew Cheng at acheng14 [at] uci [dot] edu.