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The purpose of this case study was to explore the tensions and conflicts from different language ideologies of a transnational student, a Korean student living in the USA. The data were mainly collected from online communications on the focal student’s Facebook page, the participant observation of his online communications, and informal and retrospective interviews with him over 8 months. Drawing on micro-ethnographic discourse analysis, this paper mainly deals with two representative cases that show how Korean language ideology affected my focal student’s communications with Koreans and Americans, especially his tensions and conflicts with Americans in relation to age-based hierarchical language ideology. This research has meaningful contributions in not only showing actual cases of how age-based hierarchical language ideology consciously or unconsciously affected a transnational student’s behaviors, feelings, and identity positioning, but also in displaying how Bourdieu’s two concepts of field and habitus could be rich analytical tools to explore different language ideologies.
