Staff Profile
Dr Kyoungmi Kim
Senior Lecturer
I am a Senior Lecturer in Korean and Applied Linguistics and a Programme Lead in Korean language programmes.
I teach subjects in linguistics such as 'Language and Society' and 'Forensic Linguistics' as well as 'Korean Language and Society'. As a Programme Lead, I look after two Korean undergraduate programmes, including 'Korean, TESOL and Linguistics' and 'Korean, Intercultural Communication and Linguistics'.
I supervise two PhD students: Kevin Buckle and Kerry Edwards in the areas of intersectionality (black deaf identity), and social media (practices of learning in Tweet chat).
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.
Previously, I worked as a postdoctoral research associate at Loughborough University London and contributed to an ESRC-funded project, 'Globalizing Actors in Multinational Companies'.
I was awarded a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Warwick, and my PhD research focussed on discursive construction of problems in a multinational corporate workplace.
- School – School of Education, Language and Psychology
- Email – k.kim@yorksj.ac.uk
- Phone – 01904 876 023
- Research - View my work in RaY
Teaching
I direct and teach the following modules:
- Language and Society
- Forensic Linguistics
- Korean Language and Society 2
Research
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.
Publications
Journal
Kim, K. and Angouri, J. (2022) ‘It’s hard for them to even understand what we are saying’(.) Language and
power in the multinational workplace. Critical Perspectives on the Management of Multilingualism in International Business, special issue of Critical perspectives on international business. doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/cpoib-06-2020-0084
Edwards, T., Svystunova, L., Almond, P., Kern, P., Kim, K. and Tregaskis, O. (2022) Whither National Subsidiaries?
The need to refocus International Management research on structures and processes that matter. Journal of International Business Studies, 53 (1), pp.203-210.
Almond, P., Edwards, T., Kern, P., Kim, K. and Tregaskis, O. (2021) Global norm-making processes in contemporary
multinationals. Human Resource Management Journal. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.12350
Kim, K., and Angouri, J. (2019) ‘We don’t need to abide by that!’ Negotiating professional roles in problem-solving
talk at work. Discourse & Communication, 13 (2), pp. 172-191.
PAD Research Group*.
(2016) Not so ‘innocent’ after all? Exploring corporate identity construction online. Discourse & Communication, 10 (3), pp. 291-313.
*Professional and Academic Discourse (PAD) Research Group at University of Warwick: Stephanie Schnurr
& Sue Wharton (co-ordinators), Suha Alansari, Jo Angouri, Rachel Chimbwete Phiri, Teresa Chiriatti, Carolin Debray, Christina Efthymiadou, Sixian Hah, Tilly Harrison, Ana Kedves, Attapol Khamkien, Kyoungmi Kim, Nor Azikin Mohd Omar, Thi Hong Nhung Nguyen and
Sophie Reissner-Roubicek.
Book Chapter
Kim, K. (2022) ‘we are in the hands of the head office’ Managing a multinational institution
in decision-making meeting talk in Y. Porsché, R. Scholz, and J. N. Singh (ed.). Institutionality: Studies of Discursive and Material (Re-)Ordering. Palgrave Macmillan: London.
Conferences
Conference paper
Managing inequalities with WhatsApp: A sociolinguistic approach to emergence-based institutionalisation
of a financial inclusion programme, 38th EGOS Colloquium 2022, Vienna, Austria, July 7–9, 2022.
Translation and narrative temporality: Translating the ‘one-firm’ in a global professional services firm.
The 12th International Process Symposium. Rhodes, Greece, September 01-04, 2021.
Bridging Institutional Interfaces in Developing Countries: The sociolinguistics of WhatsApp as a management
tool. Journal of Management Studies Idea Development Workshop, February 26, 2021.
Professional dynamics in the transnational process: a case study of a strategizing episode in a global
professional services firm. EGOS & Organization Studies, Kyoto University, Japan. December 13-15, 2019.
Members’ accounts of practices of institutions in interaction. The 35th European Group for Organizational Studies. Edinburgh, UK, July 4-6, 2019.
Diffusing the global service standards and initiatives in a transnational professional services firm: a
practice view. The 11th International Process Symposium. Crete, Greece, June 19-22, 2019.
Redirecting ‘big stories’ to ‘small stories’ in context of a problem-solving meeting in a Korean multinational
company. The 10th Discourse, Communication and the Enterprise Conference, KU Leuven - Faculty of Arts. Leuven, Belgium, June 3-5, 2019.
Enacting the global service standards ‘in practice’ in a transnational professional services firm. Globalizing
Actors: creating, diffusing and contesting the norms of international management, Loughborough University London, UK, 4-5th April 2019.
'We don't speak proper English ourselves’. Language problems in a multinational company. Groupe
d'Études Management & Language, Copenhagen Business School, Demark, 4–5 July 2017. (Best PhD paper award)
How (socio-)linguistics works in workplace research: Working towards ‘transdisciplinarity’. The 9th Discourse,
Communication and the Enterprise Conference, Aston University, Birmingham, 28–30 June 2017.
‘All we do is meetings around here’ reaching agreement in problem solving meeting talk. The Gothenburg
meeting science symposium, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, 23–24 May 2017.
Role enactment in problem-solving interaction. The 5th iMean, University of West Bristol, Bristol, 6–8 April 2017.
When sociolinguistics is drawn upon in workplace research: Working towards multidisciplinarity. The 5th iMean, University of West Bristol, UWE, Bristol, 6–8 April 2017.
'It's our decision'. Problem solving as a co-orientation activity: A sociolinguistic view. The 8th International
Process Symposium: Dualities, dialectics and paradoxes in organizational life, Corfu, Greece, 16–18 June 2016.
Understanding power relationships in a multinational company: An ethnographic case study of a British subsidiary of a Korean MNC. International Association of Cross-Cultural Competence and Management, Vienna University of Economics and Business, 1–3 October 2015. (funded by IACCM).
Professional activities
I am a member of:
International Association for Discourse Studies (DiscourseNet)
European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS)
Groupe d'Études Management & Language (GEM&L)
