Volume 5, Spring 2025
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Item EALL Working Papers in Linguistics and Literatures Volume 5, Table of Contents & Preface(2025) Wang, Haidan; Han, Dasom; Harms, Trevor; Iseri, JosephItem Intersectional Dialogue in the Linguistic Landscape of Honolulu Chinatown(2025) Algrim, JacobThis study utilizes nexus analysis to explore the linguistic landscape of Honolulu Chinatown, focusing on the Wo Fat Building's external walls as a corpus for visual text analysis. By documenting and analyzing a variety of texts, including authorized texts, graffiti, and community murals, the research aims to understand the intersectional dialogue among community members with diverse backgrounds and perspectives. Interviews with individuals representing different community roles reveal the complex and sometimes conflicting values within the community. The study highlights the differential representation and symbolic value of languages and cultures in public spaces, contributing to the discourse on intersectional dialogue and the importance of documenting the linguistic landscapes of diverse neighborhoods like Honolulu Chinatown.Item The Effect of Korean Pronunciation Corrective Feedback on Third-year Korean Students(2025) Kim, NamiThis study investigates the effects of different types of pronunciation corrective feedback (CF) on Korean intermediate-level L2 learners. A total of 21 participants were divided into three groups: two experimental groups and one control group. Experimental group 1 received visual and written CF, including detailed pronunciation rules, while experimental group 2 received visual and oral CF through audio models. The control group did not receive any CF. Participants completed a pre-test, two read-aloud tasks, and a post-test to assess pronunciation improvements. Results indicate that both types of CF significantly enhanced learners' pronunciation, with notable improvements in intonation and h-aspiration. Specifically, group 1 demonstrated significant gains in intonation and h-aspiration, while group 2 showed broad improvements in overall pronunciation, intonation, resyllabification, h-aspiration, and liquidization. These findings suggest that both written and oral CF are effective, though they impact learners differently. The results imply that educators can adapt feedback strategies to align with pedagogical goals and learner needs.Item A Corpus-based Study on the Anaphoric Relation of Chinese Reflexive “ziji”(2025) Li, NiniThis study explores the conditions under which ziji refers to either a local or long-distance antecedent, and when ambiguity arises within the construction “N1 + V1 + N2 + V2 + ziji/ziji de + Noun”. It demonstrates that when ziji appears as the object or as a modifier in the object position, its binding is significantly influenced by the verb’s selection for its object. In this construction, ziji tends to bind to the more prominent noun (NP), which is typically the noun more likely to be selected as the verb’s object. Key elements—such as the embedded verb, matrix subject, embedded subject, matrix verb, and their modifiers—affect ziji’s anaphoric relation by influencing V2’s object selection. In this context, ziji performs feature scanning across different governing levels when determining its antecedent, revealing intricate connections between these elements. The study argues that ziji’s unique syntactic behavior stems from the differences in how English and Chinese realize self-directed and others-directed features. While English syntactically distinguishes these features, Chinese does not, leading to ziji’s binding properties being influenced by both lexical-level and discourse-level distinctions between these features.Item The Effect of Using an Intelligent, Multimodal Chatbot for Korean Language Education(2025) Nam, SujungThe rapid advancements in artificial intelligence and chatbot technologies are reshaping many disciplines, including language education. While many chatbots have been developed for teaching English, few have been used to teach Korean. In this study, an intelligent chatbot for Korean language education named Sayromi was developed and used by learners between 2022 and 2023 across three phases. In Phase 1, the researcher learned that the first version of the chatbot, Sayromi 1.0, was helpful for improving Korean language skills, but identified several ways to improve it, such as adjusting the voice speed and adding vocalization capability. In Phase 2, the researcher used an upgraded version, Sayromi 2.0, and confirmed the positive effect of the improvements. In Phase 3, the researcher added more content and used it in an intermediate-level Korean language course at a university in the United States, where the students were regularly given chatbot-based assignments. The result showed that Sayromi had multiple positive effects, such as enabling the learners to practice in a low-stress environment, helping them practice in multiple modes (reading, writing, speaking, and listening), and solidifying their understanding of Korean via real-life scenarios. It also shows that the chatbot’s effectiveness increased between Phase 1 and 3.Item I Failed at Cooking Again: Representation of Womanhood and Motherhood in the Action-comedy Anime SPYxFAMILY(2025) Tan, Zhi Ying SamanthaThis paper examines the portrayal of mother and wife identities in the action-comedy anime SPYxFAMILY (Akifumi, 2022; 2023), using the frameworks of stylization and positioning (Davies and Harré, 1990). I focus on a main female character, Yor Forger, and how she is positioned in select episodes where these roles are foregrounded for her. In the anime, characters adopt various social identities to achieve certain social practices. Findings reveal that Yor’s identities as mother and wife are both reflexively and interactively positioned, where she consciously embraces both roles despite her non-normative profession (i.e., an assassin); Yor maintains her speech style and her consistent efforts to become a better wife and mother to Loid and Anya. Yor’s characterization also aligns with the societal norms of what is expected of a wife and mother, despite the flaws which are presented to the audience. These expectations in turn reflect the social practice of how women and femininity are portrayed and expressed in the frame of the fictional world in which the anime is set in and how that still has to resonate with what the consumers of anime know about gender expectations in Japanese society.Item The Ethical Representation of Kando and the Making of a New Subjectivity in Kang Kyŏng-ae's Manchurian Writings(2025) Wang, NanKang Kyǒng-ae has been recognized as one of the most prominent writers in the history of modern Korean literature for her works presenting the class struggle and gender issues in Korean society in the Japanese colonial period. Certainly, many studies have addressed her literary activities in Kando, an area which was also ambivalently referred to the South Manchuria in the Japanese colonial discourse. Nevertheless, such a space only serves as a geographical background in most of the literary analysis of Kang’s writings. At the intersection of China, Russia, Japan, and the Korean Peninsula, Kando witnessed the process in which Japanese colonialism expanded its power over East Asia, and the communications, confrontations, and contradictions of diverse cultural, economic, and political systems. By incorporating Mikhail Bakhtin’s ethical thinking of chronotope, this paper investigates the relationship between Kando and Kang’s writings, sheds light on what immediate reality made Kang’s representation of Kando possible, and how a new subjectivity that negotiated the cultural nationalists and the peasants was made in such a representation of chronotope.Item Case Alternation in Korean Locomotion Verb Constructions: Acceptability Judgement Differences between Native Korean Speakers and Korean as a Foreign Language Learners(2025) Yoo, Jee HaeThis study investigates case alternation in Korean locomotion verb constructions, focusing on how specified or thematized locations affect the acceptability of accusative case marking and the acceptability judgment differences between Native Korean Speakers (NKSs) and Korean as a Foreign Language (KFL) learners. To explore this, the experiments were conducted in two parts: one with native Korean speakers (NKSs) and the other with Korean as a Foreign Language (KFL) learners. A series of sentence judgment tasks involving the '[NP]-(l)ul kata' construction in various contexts was carried out with both groups. Experimental data from NKSs were analyzed to examine whether previous studies' claims about the acceptability of accusative case marking with different NP properties hold true. Results indicate that while thematized locations are generally acceptable for NKSs, the inclusion of position nouns in the NP makes accusative case marking less acceptable, aligning with previous findings. In contrast, the results from KFL learners showed a lack of basic knowledge regarding case alternation. Although their understanding improved as their proficiency level increased, it still remained insufficient. The study provides empirical evidence supporting the claim that explicit instruction can significantly improve KFL learners' understanding of Korean case alternation and suggests that further research is needed to explore its broader implications in Korean language use and pedagogy.