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ISSN : 1226-4822(Print)
The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea Vol.34 No.3 pp.283-329
DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.14353/sjk.2026.34.3.10

Language Attitudes as Interactional Stance: Stance-taking across Researcher-led and Peer-led Interviews with North Korean Refugees

Jungah Lee*
Invited Professor, Department of General Education, Chungbuk National University

Abstract

Although language attitudes have often been treated as stable dispositions, less is known about how they are articulated across interactional contexts among socially vulnerable groups experiencing prestige reversal. This study examines how six North Korean (NK) refugees in South Korea evaluated Seoul and Pyongyang Korean across two sociolinguistic interview settings: a South Korean (SK) researcher-led interview and an NK peer-led interview conducted one to two years apart. Using a qualitatively driven approach, the study used point-based coding of Identification, Assimilation, and Language Attitude to identify patterns descriptively, while qualitative analysis examined stance-taking, identity negotiation, perceived evaluation, and interactional conditions associated with familiarity and perceived safety in participants’ narratives. Descriptive coding suggested that Language Attitude showed clearer context-related variation than Identification and Assimilation. In the NK peer-led interviews, participants more often foregrounded the pragmatic value of Seoul Korean, whereas in the SK researcher-led interviews, they more often foregrounded the affective and symbolic value of Pyongyang Korean. These patterns are interpreted not as unstable beliefs or a pure interviewer effect but as context-sensitive stance-taking associated with social alignment, perceived evaluation, familiarity, and prestige reversal. These findings contribute to interactional sociolinguistics and migration research by reconceptualizing language attitudes as context-sensitive stance performance.

초록

Vol. 40 No. 4 (2022.12)

Journal Abbreviation j. Korea Saf. Manag. Sci.
Frequency Published four times annually in March, June, September, and December
Doi Prefix 10.14353/sjk.
Year of Launching 1993
Publisher The Sociolinguistic Society of Korea
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