Speaking like Asian immigrants

This article explores the relationship between immigrant and non-immigrant Asian American youth identities use of language to manage this relationship. Focusing on everyday interactions at a high school in Texas, analysis examines how fluent English-speaking Korean Filipino students draw linguistic resources associated with immigrants, thus attending generational identity, an important, though often oversimplified, social dimension transnational contexts. According present analysis, salient differences may exist youth, yet their practices complicate simple binaries opposition. Specifically, focuses both accommodate toward mock speech notes that these ostensibly divergent exhibit overlap. It is argued convergences divergences can be productively examined by distinguishing levels frame ideology , explaining speakers interpret revoicings as accommodation, mocking, or, some cases, ambiguous act hovers between.