Dr Hanwool Choe | People | School of English | Faculty of Arts

Assistant Professor

Dr Hanwool Choe

BA English Linguistics, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies; MA & PhD Linguistics, Georgetown University

Assistant Professor

Dr Hanwool Choe

BA English Linguistics, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies; MA & PhD Linguistics, Georgetown University

PROFILE

Hanwool Choe studies digital discourse, language and food, family interaction, and life stories through the frameworks of interactional sociolinguistics and discourse analysis. She is currently working on several projects concerning everyday vlogging, family group chats, mukbang (livestream of eating), and social media of virtual humans.

Hanwool received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from Georgetown University in Washington D.C., U.S.A. in 2020. She was awarded a Fulbright scholarship (2013-2015) to obtain her M.A. in Language & Communication at Georgetown University. She completed her B.A. in English Linguistics, with a minor in Education, at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul, South Korea, with the highest distinction, in 2012.

PUBLICATIONS

Monograph

Choe, H. (Under contract). Online family talk: Multimodality, discourse, and identity in family group chats. Cambridge University Press.

Journal articles

Choe, H. (2024). The presentation of self via everyday vlogging: Analyzing everyday vlogs of Korean expatriates. Discourse, Context & Media 59. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2024.100784.

Choe, H., & Gordon, C. (2024). “I’m only half Korean but I can relate to a lot of what you said”: YouTube comments as second stories in response to “lunchbox moment” narrative videos. Internet Pragmatics. doi: https://doi.org/10.1075/ip.00108.cho.

Choe, H. (2023). The other-granted self of Korean “comfort women": Analyzing interview narratives of Korean women coerced into the Japanese military's sexual slavery during World War II. Narrative Inquiry.

Choe, H. (2020). Talking the cat: Footing lamination in a Korean livestream of cats mukbang. Journal of Pragmatics, 160, 60-79.

Choe, H. (2019). Eating together multimodally: Collaborative eating in mukbang, a Korean livestream of eating. Language in Society, 48(2), 171-208.

Choe, H. (2018). Type your listenership: An exploration of listenership in instant messages. Discourse Studies, 20(6), 703-725.

Book chapters

Choe, H. (2024). “할미 마음이 아파요”: Korean honorific speech level markers as contextualization cues in family instant messages, In Mary S. Kim (Ed.) Exploring Korean politeness across online and offline interactions. Springer.

Choe, H. (2021). Mukbang as your digital tablemate: Constructing commensality online, In Alla Tovares and Cynthia Gordon (Eds.) Identity and ideology in digital food discourse: Social media interactions across cultural contexts, (pp. 137-167). Bloomsbury Publishing.

Conference proceeding

Hwang, J.D., H. Choe, N.R. Han, and N. Schneider. (2020). K-SNACS: Annotating Korean adposition semantics. Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations.

TEL

3917-2764

E-MAIL

hanwoolc@hku.hk

OFFICE

Room 849, 8/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus

Digital discourse; Discourse analysis; Family interaction; Interactional sociolinguistics; Language and Food; Life stories