BTS and Languages

Joowon Suh is Senior Lecturer and Director of the Korean Language Program in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University. She coauthored the KLEAR Integrated Korean Workbook series and revised its Textbook Series 2nd and 3rd editions. She served as the president of the American Association of Teachers of Korean (2018–2021). Her research interests include Korean linguistics and language pedagogy, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, and pragmatics. Eun Sung Park is Professor in the English Department at Sogang University. Her research interests include SLA, asset-based pedagogy for refugee-background students, and multilingual users’ ELF and translanguaging practices. She has published articles in Applied Linguistics, Journal of Language, Identity, & Education, Language and Intercultural Communication, Language Learning, Language Teaching Research, and TESOL Quarterly, among others. She also coedited English Education at the Tertiary Level in Asia (2017) and authored Instructed SLA: A Practical Guide for Teachers (2020).

Introduction Part 1: Songs and Lyrics 1.“Hip-hop boyband” that resonates: How BTS lyrics comfort and empower 2. “I got you/You got me”: Transitivity analysis of BTS fan and healing songs 3. A corpus-driven genre analysis of BTS lyrics Part 2: Multilingual Communication 4. “I purple you!”: BTS’s ELF and translanguaging practices 5. BTS’s and ARMYs’ dynamic translanguaging on social media 6. Creative disruption of linguistic hierarchy: “Brilliant, tremendous, and sensational” multilingual communication 7. Cultivating uri community: Translanguaging practice in Japanese fan communities Part 3: Multimodal Practices and Engagement 8. BTS reaction videos as Third Space for identity negotiation 9. Making space: Mapping the power of BTS pop-up markets 10. “Do you want to listen to my Seoul?”: A multimodal discourse analysis of BTS advertisements Epilogue