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.
Below is a list of previous and upcoming KoHL/콜 roundtable events:
September 7 2022: Sarah Sok (University of California, Irvine). “Soy Coreana Pero Nunca Viví en Corea”: A Case Study of Cultural Identity and Heritage Language Maintenance Among Koreans in Spanish-Speaking Nations
August 24 2022: Yoonjung Kang (University of Toronto). Vowels of Heritage Korean in Northern China.
August 10 2022: Jhonni Carr (University of California, Berkeley). Korean Meets English Meets Spanish: The Linguistic Landscape of Koreatown, Los Angeles.
July 20 2022: Rachel Lim (Texas A&M University). Speaking Diaspora: Korean Language and the Politics of Ethnic Belonging Among Mexicans of Korean Descent in Yucatán.
August 4 2021: Lisa Jeon (LanGo Institute). Mapping Korean Language Variation via GIS.
July 7 2021: Ji Young Kim (UCLA). Mapping “New” vs. “Old” Koreatowns via GIS.
June 2 2021: Tian Li (Harvard University). Nonsense or an Alternative Language?: The Lingualscape in the Transnational Korean Screen Culture.
May 26 2021: Charles Chang (Boston University) & Sunyoung Ahn (Kyung Hee University). Emotion word development in Korean-speaking children living in majority and minority contexts.
April 28 2021: Jinhyun Cho (Macquarie University). English as language capital and American dreams in South Korea
April 14 2021: Sofia Rüdiger (University of Bayreuth). What’s in a Name? Korean(ized) English(es) and the World Englishes Paradigm.