Faculty Research Profiles: Adrienne Lo

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Assistant Professor

Cognitive Science of Teaching and Learning
Educational Psychology
220B Education Building
1310 S. 6th St. MC 708
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Research Biography

My research in linguistic anthropology explores how Korean American children who attended classes at community based educational organizations in a multiethnic community in California were socialized to culturally specific frameworks of language, morality, and emotion. Using discourse analysis of classroom interactions, I examine how second generation students were positioned as moral subjects through narratives, codeswitching, evidential frameworks, and epistemic particles. I am currently investigating the relationship between evidential patterning and the indexical constitution of respect and hierarchy; different cultural ideologies about the kinds of assessments or evaluations that are good/bad for children to hear and to make; and the socialization of empathy through classroom narratives.

Degrees

  • PhD, Anthropology, UCLA, 2006
  • M.A., Applied Linguistics, UCLA, 1999
  • B.A., Linguistics, Yale University, 1991

Key Professional Appointments

  • Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006--

Selected Publications

  • Lo, A., & Reyes, A. (in press). Asian Americans and language. In H. Ling & A. W. Austin (Eds.), Asian American history and culture: An encyclopedia. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe.
  • Beyond Yellow English: Toward a Linguistic Anthopology of Asian Pacific America [co-edited with Angela Reyes; forthcoming from Oxford University Press]
  • Lo, A. and Reyes, A. On Yellow English and Other Perilous Terms. To appear in Reyes, A. and Lo, A (eds.) Beyond Yellow English: Toward a Linguistic Anthropology of Asian Pacific America.  Oxford University Press.
  • Kang, M. A. & Lo, A. (2004). Two ways of articulating heterogeneity in Korean-American narratives of ethnic identity. Journal of Asian American Studies, 7(2), 93-116.
  • Lo, A. (2004). Evidentiality and morality in a Korean heritage language school. Pragmatics 14(2/3), 235-256.

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