Exploring Korean Politeness Across Online and Offline Interactions

Mary Shin Kim is Associate Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Her research focuses on conversation analysis, discourse pragmatics, and language teaching and learning. Her work has appeared in a variety of journals, including Discourse Processes, Discourse Studies, Journal of Pragmatics, Research on Language and Social Interaction, and Text and Talk. She is one of the authors of a series of best-selling Korean language workbooks (Integrated Korean series). She is a recipient of the College of Languages, Linguistics, and Literature Junior/Mid-Career Faculty Excellence in Scholarship & Research Award and the Academy of Korean Studies research grant.

Introduction: K-Politeness Across Online and Offline Interactions.- What Do Korean Speakers Know About Politeness?.- Korean Honorific Speech Level Markers as Contextualization Cues in Family Instant Messages.- Addressee Honorifics as an Interactional Resource for Socialization in Korean Adult-Child Interaction.- Solidarity through Negotiated Interactional Identities in Korean.