Devon Renfroe
ALSLA Doctoral Student
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Education
M.A., Applied Second Language Acquisition, Carnegie Mellon University
B.A., Political Science, University of Florida
Bio
My research focuses on L2 Korean speakers' pragmatic awareness and use of the honorific system. Specifically, I am interested in how the use of different pragmatic features play out in L1-L2 interactions and the ideologies that guide these choices.
Areas of Interest
- Pragmatics
- L2 Korean
- Honorifics
- Interaction
- Sociolinguistics
Selected Awards & Honors
- Fulbright Scholar, 2024–2025
- Critical Language Scholarship (Korean)