Theorizing leisure speech communities from the serious leisure and social worlds perspectives

초록

This project addresses the emerging concept of serious leisure speech communities (SLSC) from both a global and a local perspective. They emerged in recent research among non-native speakers in South Korea. Leisure speech communities are best understood within a leisure social world context by adding additional parameters of linguistic majority and minority interactions, including majority, minority, and blended language, within and around leisure activity spaces. A leisure speech community emerges when minority and majority speakers share minority, majority and blended languages in serious leisure roles as neophytes, participants, moderate or core devotees, combined with social world relationships as active regulars and insiders, or interested tourists and strangers. From a global perspective this phenomenon arose from the leisure, social, and communicative challenges experienced by individuals taking advantage of novel population flows into East Asia. Participants undertook casual, project, and serious leisure within their familial, educational, and social settings as non-native speakers in their host country. Here, these previously identified SLSC parameters are further considered within a conceptual approach combining additional ideas from serious leisure and social worlds perspectives. In turn, this provides an elaborated model of a SLSC that can assist further research at the leisure and applied linguistics interface.

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