Global Beats, Local Tongue: Studying Code Switching in K-pop Hits on Billboard Charts
Published in Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, 2025
This paper is a primary investigation into the linguistic strategies employed in K-pop songs that achieve global chart success, with a focus on the role of code-switching and English lyric usage.
Recommended citation: Aditya Narayan Sankaran, Reza Farahbakhsh, and Noel Crespi. 2025. Global Beats, Local Tongue: Studying Code Switching in K-pop Hits on Billboard Charts. In Proceedings of the Anthology of Computers and the Humanities.
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