"Third Space," New Ethnic Identities, and Possible Selves in the Imagined Communities: A Case of Korean Heritage Language Speakers

Autor/in	Kim, Youn-Kyung
Titel	"Third Space," New Ethnic Identities, and Possible Selves in the Imagined Communities: A Case of Korean Heritage Language Speakers
Quelle	In: Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 22 (2023) 1, S.1-17 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1534-8458
DOI	10.1080/15348458.2020.1832493
Schlagwörter	Self Concept; Korean; Heritage Education; Ethnicity; Language Usage; Native Language; Personal Autonomy; Acculturation; Korean Americans; Race; Bilingualism; English (Second Language); Language Role; Futures (of Society); College Students; Majors (Students); Student Attitudes; Language Attitudes; Participant Characteristics; Churches; Language Proficiency; Language Dominance; Kentucky (Louisville) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Selbstkonzept; Koreanisch; Ethnizität; Sprachgebrauch; Individuelle Autonomie; Akkulturation; Rasse; Abstammung; Bilingualismus; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Future; Society; Zukunft; Collegestudent; Schülerverhalten; Sprachverhalten; Church; Kirche; Language skill; Language skills; Sprachkompetenz; Sprachliche Dominanz
Abstract	The Korean heritage language (HL) speakers exercised their "agency" to speak Korean HL, and transformed their ambivalent language experiences, caused by the contradictory ideologies of assimilation and racialization operating in the United States, into a conducive "third space" (Bhabha, 1994), where they recreated their ethnic identities "anew." Their construction of new ethnic identities was more complex than the continuum model (e.g., Jeon, 2010) because it was "dialogically" fluid in Bakhtin's (1981) notion and "dialectically" hybrid--transcending Americanness and Koreanness--and it was a "distinctive new whole" in its own existence. Also, mediated through Korean HL, they were engaged with their "possible selves" (Marcus & Nurius, 1986) as bilingual members in their future "imagined communities" (Kanno & Norton, 2003). This study contributes to the nuanced understanding of the fluid construction of the HL speakers' ethnic identities in the present and future, and emphasizes the critical role played by the HL for it. (As Provided).
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