Project Team

Elaine Chun

Elaine Chun

Elaine W. Chun is an associate professor of English and Linguistics at the University of South Carolina. Her research examines how ideologies of language, race, and gender mediate language practices in the United States. Drawing on methods of interactional analysis and ethnography, she has primarily investigated multiethnic youth linguistic practices and stereotypical Asian linguistic representations in both face-to-face and social media contexts. Her work has appeared in Language in Society, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Pragmatics, Language & Communication, Applied Linguistics, and Discourse & Society.