Asian Studies Seminar Series: Loli Kim In brief Date - 8 November 2023 Venue - Project Room 1.06, 50 George Square Speaker - Dr Loli Kim (University of Oxford) Title - 'Interpreting Korean Film Discourse: Towards a New Paradigm for Korean-English Cross-Cultural Multimodal Analysis' About the event Foreign film research presents a unique situation in which the researcher is placed in the role of a multimodal translator, finding themselves entirely responsible for interpreting multifaceted meanings using their own semiotic repertoire. This issue is most severe between languages and cultures with vast disparities. Just like viewers of foreign films rely upon subtitles, Anglophone European researchers who analyse Korean films face the inevitable challenge of the untranslatable, only because of film narrative’s reliance upon multimodality to make sense, the challenge is even greater. The risk is not only misunderstandings and inaccuracies, but of Eurocentric analysis that is entirely ineffective in acquiring knowledge of the ‘Korean’ films in question. In this talk we will look at the benefits of using Korean sociopragmatics to interpret multimodality in Korean films and will explore some of the complex discourses non-Korean researchers face in Korean film analysis, such as ‘intertextuality’ which some researchers have argued cannot be accurately interpreted in other cultures and languages. About the speaker Dr Loli Kim is Postdoctoral Researcher on the Leverhulme Sea, Song and Survival: The Language and Folklore of the Haenyeo Women project at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford. As a multimodalist, semiotician, and specialist in Asian studies and film, she publishes across fields of multimodality, semiotics, translation, and film and media studies – all drawn together by cross-cultural perspectives that seek to contextualise Asian discourses in their own cultures, and to develop the methodological tools needed for doing so. About the seminar series Each year, Asian Studies welcomes a fantastic range of guest speakers and colleagues to present a seminar on their research, spanning fields as diverse as film and media, literature, religion, society, politics and international relations. How to join Events are free and everyone is welcome. No booking is necessary. Are you interested in studying with us? We are the only university in Scotland to offer full undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes in both Chinese and Japanese, as well as postgraduate programmes in Korean Studies and East Asian Relations. Find out more about Asian Studies at Edinburgh Nov 08 2023 16.00 - 18.00 Asian Studies Seminar Series: Loli Kim Join us in-person for a seminar by Dr Loli Kim (University of Oxford) entitled 'Interpreting Korean Film Discourse: Towards a New Paradigm for Korean-English Cross-Cultural Multimodal Analysis'. Project Room 1.06 50 George Square University of Edinburgh EH8 9LH Find the venue
Asian Studies Seminar Series: Loli Kim In brief Date - 8 November 2023 Venue - Project Room 1.06, 50 George Square Speaker - Dr Loli Kim (University of Oxford) Title - 'Interpreting Korean Film Discourse: Towards a New Paradigm for Korean-English Cross-Cultural Multimodal Analysis' About the event Foreign film research presents a unique situation in which the researcher is placed in the role of a multimodal translator, finding themselves entirely responsible for interpreting multifaceted meanings using their own semiotic repertoire. This issue is most severe between languages and cultures with vast disparities. Just like viewers of foreign films rely upon subtitles, Anglophone European researchers who analyse Korean films face the inevitable challenge of the untranslatable, only because of film narrative’s reliance upon multimodality to make sense, the challenge is even greater. The risk is not only misunderstandings and inaccuracies, but of Eurocentric analysis that is entirely ineffective in acquiring knowledge of the ‘Korean’ films in question. In this talk we will look at the benefits of using Korean sociopragmatics to interpret multimodality in Korean films and will explore some of the complex discourses non-Korean researchers face in Korean film analysis, such as ‘intertextuality’ which some researchers have argued cannot be accurately interpreted in other cultures and languages. About the speaker Dr Loli Kim is Postdoctoral Researcher on the Leverhulme Sea, Song and Survival: The Language and Folklore of the Haenyeo Women project at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford. As a multimodalist, semiotician, and specialist in Asian studies and film, she publishes across fields of multimodality, semiotics, translation, and film and media studies – all drawn together by cross-cultural perspectives that seek to contextualise Asian discourses in their own cultures, and to develop the methodological tools needed for doing so. About the seminar series Each year, Asian Studies welcomes a fantastic range of guest speakers and colleagues to present a seminar on their research, spanning fields as diverse as film and media, literature, religion, society, politics and international relations. How to join Events are free and everyone is welcome. No booking is necessary. Are you interested in studying with us? We are the only university in Scotland to offer full undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes in both Chinese and Japanese, as well as postgraduate programmes in Korean Studies and East Asian Relations. Find out more about Asian Studies at Edinburgh Nov 08 2023 16.00 - 18.00 Asian Studies Seminar Series: Loli Kim Join us in-person for a seminar by Dr Loli Kim (University of Oxford) entitled 'Interpreting Korean Film Discourse: Towards a New Paradigm for Korean-English Cross-Cultural Multimodal Analysis'. Project Room 1.06 50 George Square University of Edinburgh EH8 9LH Find the venue
Nov 08 2023 16.00 - 18.00 Asian Studies Seminar Series: Loli Kim Join us in-person for a seminar by Dr Loli Kim (University of Oxford) entitled 'Interpreting Korean Film Discourse: Towards a New Paradigm for Korean-English Cross-Cultural Multimodal Analysis'.
