I am a Senior Lecturer in Korean and Applied Linguistics. I teach modules such asLanguage and Society, Forensic Linguistics, Korean Language and Society, and theKorean Language Project, as well as Research Methods (MRes). I also supervise PhD and MRes students working on multilingualism, intersectionality, multimodality, and digital communication.
My research centres on institutional and professional discourses within multilingual and multinational contexts, including computer-mediated communication. Drawing upon discourse analysis, I examine workplace discourse and institutional discourse, exploring how professional identities and power relations are constructed and negotiated through language. My work also addresses issues of multilingualism and language ideologies in various settings.
I currently hold research funding from the Korean Studies Grant 2024 (The Academy of Korean Studies) for a project entitled 'Demystifying Discourses on Non-Honorific Speech Styles on a South Korean Online Community Platform’. I am also working on a forthcoming book, KoreanScapes: A Sociolinguistic Guide to Korean Language and Society (Routledge), which explores Korean language, society, and discourse from a sociolinguistic perspective.
Prior to joining my current institution, I worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Loughborough University London, contributing to the ESRC-funded projectGlobalising Actors in Multinational Companies.
I hold a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Warwick, where my doctoral research investigated the discursive construction of problems in multinational corporate workplaces. I also hold an MSc in Language Teaching from the University of Edinburgh.
I direct and teach the following modules:
- Language and Society
- Forensic Linguistics
- Korean Language and Society 2
My research revolves around institutional and professional discourses in multinational/multilingual contexts and computer-mediated discourse. I draw on interactional sociolinguistics and narrative analysis to explore how we construct social meanings, identities, and social relationships.
I have published papers in international, peer-reviewed journals, such as Discourse & Communication, Journal of International Business Studies and Critical Perspectives on International Business. I also contributed a chapter to 'Institutionality: Studies of Discursive and Material (Re-)Ordering'. My publications include empirical studies on participants’ discourse about language, culture and norms in multinational workplaces, as well as studies on the discursive construction of power and identity in multinational contexts.
I collaborate with researchers in and outside of linguistics to investigate language-related real-life problems and to examine social and ideological processes at the workplace.
Recent publications
I am a member of:
- International Association for Discourse Studies (DiscourseNet)
- European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS)
- Groupe d'Études Management & Language (GEM&L)
