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Record W4416189401 · doi:10.1080/01434632.2025.2571063

Practiced and positioned cultural and linguistic identities of a multiracial South Korean family

2025· article· en· W4416189401 on OpenAlex

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicMultilingual Education and Policy
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersCollege of Education, Michigan State University
KeywordsEthnic groupIdentity (music)MultilingualismCultural identitySociolinguisticsNeuroscience of multilingualismImmigration

Abstract

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This study investigates the linguistic and cultural identities of a multiracial Korean/Canadian family navigating the societal ideologies of Korea, where pure-blood notions heavily influence identity construction. Using Holland et al.'s (1998) theory of figured worlds and Gee's (2011, 2014) framework on identity, this qualitative case study examines how family members practice and are positioned within these ideologies. Data were collected through language portraits (LPs), LP discussions, semi-structured interviews, and journals revealing nuanced dynamics of identity negotiation. The findings highlight the Korean father’s transnational identity, viewing language as a communicative tool rather than tied to national identity; the White Canadian mother’s embrace of a foreigner identity while fostering her children’s Korean identity; and the children’s evolving strategies to assert their Korean identity while resisting outsider positioning. The study highlights the inadequacy of Korean educational frameworks in addressing multicultural realities and calls for curriculum revision to reflect Korea’s diversity while using innovative tools like LPs to foster inclusivity. By bridging personal narratives with societal discourses, this research uniquely captures the intersection of practiced and positioned linguistic and cultural identities, offering critical insights for supporting multiracial families. These findings contribute to broader discussions on multiculturalism, education, and identity in increasingly globalised societies.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.398
Threshold uncertainty score0.527

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.063
GPT teacher head0.439
Teacher spread0.376 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it