Culture and Interdiscursivity in Korean Fricative Voice Gestures
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Harkness, Nicholas H. 2011. “Culture and Interdiscursivity in Korean Fricative Voice Gestures.” Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 21 (1) (June 15): 99-123. doi:10.1111/j.1548-1395.2011.01084.x.Abstract
This paper explores the cultural significance of a type of audible gesture in Korean speech that I call the Fricative Voice Gesture (FVG). I distinguish between two forms of this gesture: the reactive FVG, which serves as a self-standing utterance that signals personally felt intensity, and the prosodic FVG, which can be superimposed upon an utterance as a form of intensification. Based on an ethnographically informed analysis of interviews, Christian sermons, and advertisements for soju, a Korean spirit, in South Korea, I view the interdiscursive link between reactive and prosodic FVGs in terms of the ongoing cultural revalorization of the sound shape. I focus in particular on the shift from harsher to softer FVGs—and their omission altogether—according to different, but related, paradigms of social differentiation such as class, gender, and age.Citable link to this page
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