Office: PAS 2016
Phone: 519-888-4567 x41009
Email: adrienne.lo@uwaterloo.ca
Background
Adrienne Lo (B.A. Yale, M.A., Ph.D UCLA) is a linguistic anthropologist. She is the co-editor of Beyond Yellow English: Toward a Linguistic Anthropology of Asian Pacific America (Oxford, 2009) and South Korea’s Education Exodus: The Life and Times of Study Abroad. (Center for Korean Studies, University of Washington, 2014). Her current research examines ideologies of multilingualism in the South Korean popular media and the history of the racialization of Asian American linguistic competencies.
Publications
Book Contributions
Forthcoming
Lo, A., & Chun, E. W. Language and race: Elusiveness, entanglement, enregisterment. In N. Bonvillain and I. García-Sánchez(Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology (2nd ed.). New York: Routledge.
Lo, A., & Choi, L. J. Imagining international students at an American university: Discourses of multilingualism, diversity, and race. In M. Wu, S. R. Kanobana, & J. N. Singh (Eds.), Subverting space and race: Towards a geopolitically conscious and antiracist epistemology in the sociology of language. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
2024
Lo, A., & Bell, L. A. Ethnography. In A. D. Percio & M.-C. Flubacher (Eds.), Critical Sociolinguistics: Dialogues, Dissonances, Developments. Bloomsbury Academic, 57-69.
2021
Lo, A., and Choi, L. The education exodus from South Korea. In F. N. Pieke, A. Dudden, and K. Iwabuchi, eds. Global East Asia.Berkeley: University of California Press. 129-139.
Lo, A., and Choi, L. Forming capital: Emblematizing discourses of mobility in South Korea (Korean translation of Lo and Choi 2017a). In Y. Kang, ed. Global Korean Studies: Linguistic Anthropology of South Korea. Seoul: Seoul National University Press.
Lo, A., and Chun, E. Language, race, and reflexivity: A view from linguistic anthropology In H. Samy Alim, A. Reyes, P. Kroskrity, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Language and Race. New York: Oxford University Press. 25-46.
Lo, A, Rim, M., Choi, L. and Abelmann, N. Drama consumption in transnational South Korea: Korean American women and intraethnic othering. In Yeonhee Yoon, ed. The Korean Wave: From a Private Commodity to a Public Good. Seoul: Korea University Press.
Lo, A. "Suddenly faced with a ‘Chinese Village’: The linguistic racialization of Asian Americans." In Raciolinguistics: How Language Shapes Our Ideas about Race. H. Samy Alim, Arnetha Ball, and John Rickford, eds. New York: Oxford University Press 97-111.
Chun, E. and Lo, A. "Language and racialization." In The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology. Routledge, 2016. Nancy Bonvillain, ed. 220-233.
Lo, A., Abelmann, N., Kwon, S., and Okazaki, S., eds. South Korea’s Education Exodus: The Life and Times of Study Abroad. Seattle: Center for Korean Studies, University of Washington Press.
Lo, Adrienne, and Jenna Kim. "Early wave returnees in Seoul: The dilemmas of morality and modernity. ."South Korea’s Education Exodus: The Life and Times of Early Study Abroad.. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press.
Abelmann, Nancy, Soo Ah Kwon, Adrienne Lo, and Sumie Okazaki. "South Korea’s Education Exodus: The Life and Times of Early Study Abroad." Early study abroad: An introduction. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press.
Lo, Adrienne, and Heidi Fung. "Shaming." Handbook of Language Socialization. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. 169-189.
Lo, Adrienne, and Angela Reyes. "On Yellow English and Other Perilous Terms." Beyond Yellow English: Toward a Linguistic Anthropology of Asian Pacific America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. 1-17.
Lo, Adrienne. "Evidentiality and morality in a Korean heritage language school." Beyond Yellow English: Toward a Linguistic Anthropology of Asian Pacific America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. 63-83.
Edited Books
Lo, Adrienne, Nancy Abelmann, Soo Ah Kwon, and Sumie Okazaki. South Korea’s Education Exodus: The Life and Times of Early Study Abroad.. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2014.
Reyes, Angela, and Adrienne Lo. Beyond Yellow English: Toward a Linguistic Anthropology of Asian Pacific America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Journal Articles
2024. Choi, L. J., & Lo, A. Returnee students in South Korea. Melbourne Asia Review, 19.
2024. Lo, A. Commentary on Racial Optics of Escalation, Current Anthropology 65(3): 495-6.
2021. Lo, A. Whose hearing matters? Context and regimes of perception in sociolinguistics. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 267-268: 153-162.
2021. Lo, A., and Choi, L. The education exodus from South Korea. In F. N. Pieke, A. Dudden, and K. Iwabuchi, eds. Global East Asia. Berkeley: University of California Press. 129-139.
2021. Lo, A., and Choi, L. Forming capital: Emblematizing discourses of mobility in South Korea (Korean translation of Lo and Choi 2017a). In Y. Kang, ed. The Linguaculture of Modern Korean Society. Seoul: Seoul National University Press. 295-318.
2020. Lo, A. On affect and race under capitalism. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 265: 129-131.
2020. Lo, A., and Chun, E. Language, race, and reflexivity: A view from linguistic anthropology In H. Samy Alim, A. Reyes, P. Kroskrity, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Language and Race. New York: Oxford University Press. 25-46.
2020. Lo, A. Systems, features, figures: Approaches to language and class vs. language and race. Journal of Sociolinguistics 24(3): 293-307.
2020. Lo, A. Race, language, and representations. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 263: 77-83.
2020. Lo, A, Rim, M., Choi, L. and Abelmann, N. Drama consumption in transnational South Korea: Korean American women and intraethnic othering. In Yeonhee Yoon, ed. The Korean Wave: From a Private Commodity to a Public Good. Seoul: Korea University Press. 69-86.
2017. Lo, A. and Choi, L. "Forming capital: Emblematizing discourses of mobility in South Korea." Language in Society 46(1) 77-93.
2017. Lo, A. and Park, J. "Metapragmatics of mobility." Language in Society 46(1) 1-4.
2012. Park, Joseph S., and Adrienne Lo. "Transnational South Korean as a site for a sociolinguistics of globalization: Markets, timescales, neoliberalism." Journal of Sociolinguistics 16.2: 147-164.
Lo, Adrienne, and Jenna Kim. "Linguistic competency and citizenship: Contrasting portraits of multilingualism in the South Korean popular media." Journal of Sociolinguistics 16.2 (2012): 255-276.
2011. Lo, Adrienne, and Jenna Kim. "Manufacturing citizenship: Metapragmatic framings of language competencies in media images of mixed race men in South Korea." Discourse and Society 22.4: 440-457.
2009. Howard, Kathryn, and Adrienne Lo. "Mobilizing respect and politeness in classrooms."Linguistics and Education 20.3: 211-216.
2009. Lo, Adrienne. "Lessons about respect and affect in a Korean American heritage language school." Linguistics and Education 20.3: 217-234.
2004. Kang, Agnes, and Adrienne Lo. "Two ways of articulating heterogeneity in Korean-American narratives of ethnic identity." Journal of Asian American Studies 7.2: 93-116.
2004. Lo, Adrienne. "Evidentiality and morality in a Korean heritage language school."Pragmatics 14.2/3: 235-256.
2004. Reyes, Angela, and Adrienne Lo. "Language, identity, and relationality in Asian Pacific America: An Introduction." Pragmatics 14.2/3: 115-125.
1999. Lo, Adrienne. "Codeswitching, Speech Community Membership, and the Construction of Ethnic Identity." Journal of Sociolinguistics 3.4: 461-479.