#  Publications 

 



**BOOKS AND EDITED VOLUMES**

Fleming, Luke, Nicholas Harkness, and Constantine V. Nakassis, eds. 2027. *The Total Linguistic Fact*: *Linguistic Anthropology after Michael Silverstein*. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Harkness, Nicholas and Han Na Jun, eds. 2026. *Artificial Intelligence in South Korea: Culture, Politics, Society*. Cambridge: Korea Institute, Harvard University.

Harkness, Nicholas. 2021. *Glossolalia and the Problem of Language*. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Ball, Christopher and Nicholas Harkness, eds. 2015. *Kinship Chronotopes*. Special issue of *Anthropological Quarterly* 88(2).

Harkness, Nicholas. 2014. *Songs of Seoul: An Ethnography of Voice and Voicing in Christian South Korea*. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Harkness, Nicholas and Lily Hope Chumley, eds. 2013. *QUALIA*. Special double issue of *Anthropological Theory* 13(1/2).

**ARTICLES, CHAPTERS, AND REVIEWS**

Harkness, Nicholas, Luke Fleming, and Constantine V. Nakassis. 2027. “Introduction.” *The Total Linguistic Fact*: *Linguistic Anthropology after Michael Silverstein*. Luke Fleming, Nicholas Harkness, & Constantine Nakassis, eds. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Harkness, Nicholas. 2027. “A Dynamic Figuration of the Total Linguistic Fact.” *The Total Linguistic Fact*: *Linguistic Anthropology after Michael Silverstein*. Luke Fleming, Nicholas Harkness, & Constantine Nakassis, eds. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Harkness, Nicholas. 2026. "Introduction." *Artificial Intelligence in South Korea: Culture, Politics, Society.* Edited by Nicholas Harkness and Han Na Jun.

Harkness, Nicholas. 2026. “The Transpacific Matter of Sound; or, Choi Jashil and the Religious Media of Korean War Debris.”*Transpacific East Asia: Trajectories and Transformations in Music and Sound*. Hyun Kyong Chang, Hedy Law, & Nancy Rao, eds. Palgrave, 67–97.

Harkness, Nicholas. 2026. "Recombinant Korea in Late Interdiscursivity." Commentary on "Localizing Hallyu: The Semiotics of the Korean Wave in Media and Discourse,” special issue of *Signs & Society* 14(2):228–232, edited by Joyhanna Yoo and Mie Hiramoto.

Harkness, Nicholas. 2025. “Sound.” *Critical Terms for Religious Studies* (*2nd edition*). Sarah Hammerschlag, ed. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Harkness, Nicholas. 2025. Comment on “Quantities of Qualia: Stone Athletes and the Ethnography of Intensity,” by Adrienne Cohen. *Current Anthropology.*

Harkness, Nicholas and Howard Gardner. 2023.*Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society* 164(3/4):349–354.

Harkness, Nicholas. 2022. “Qualia, Semiotic Categories, and Sensuous Truth: Rhematics, Pragmatics, Symbolics.” *Estudos Semióticos.* Special issue, *Semiótica e Verdade*, edited by Paolo Demuru and Franciscu Sedda. 18(2):56–81.

Harkness, Nicholas. 2021. “Han’gugŏ mach’arŭm moksori chesŭch’ŏ ŭi munhwa wa sanghodamnonsŏng.” *Hyŏndae Han’guk Sahoe ŭi Ŏnŏmunhwa*. Kang, Yoonhee, ed. Seoul: Sŏul Taehakyo Ch’ulp’an Munhwawŏn, 373–417. \[Korean reprint and translation of Harkness 2011\]

Harkness, Nicholas. 2020. “La glossolalia, i qualia e la semiotica del sentimento \[Glossolalia, Qualia, and the Semiotics of Feeling\].” *Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio*. Special issue, titled *Linguaggio e Emozioni*, edited by Francesca Ervas, Elisabetta Gola, Franciscu Sedda, Pietro Storari. (Keynote lecture published in the Proceedings of the XXV Congress of the Italian Society for the Philosophy of Language, translated by Franciscu Sedda). 14(1):26–41.

Harkness, Nicholas. 2020. “Qualia.” *The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology*. James Stanlaw and Jack Sidnell, eds. Wiley-Blackwell.

Harkness, Nicholas. 2017. “Transducing a Sermon, Inducing Conversion: Billy Graham, Billy Kim, and the 1973 Crusade in Seoul.” *Representations* 137:112–143.

Harkness, Nicholas. 2017. “The Open Throat: Deceptive Sounds, Facts of Firstness, and the Interactional Emergence of Voice.” *Signs and Society* 5(S1):21–52.

Harkness, Nicholas. 2017. “Glossolalia and Cacophony in South Korea: Cultural Semiosis at the Limits of Language.” *American Ethnologist* 44(3):476–489.

Harkness, Nicholas. 2017. Review of *An Asian Frontier: American Anthropology and Korea, 1882–1945*, by Robert Oppenheim. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2016. *Journal of Asian Studies* 76(1):243–4

Harkness, Nicholas. 2016. “A Bottleneck in the Plenum: Comment on *Ethical Life: Its Natural and Social Histories*, by Webb Keane.” *Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory* 6(1):69–73.

Harkness, Nicholas. 2015. Review of *Musical Encounters in Korean Christianity: A Trans-Pacific Narrative*. By Hyung Kyong Chang. *Korea Dissertations*.

Harkness, Nicholas. 2015. “Basic Kinship Terms: Christian Relations, Chronotopic Formulations, and a Korean Confrontation of Language.” *Kinship Chronotopes, Christopher Ball and Nicholas Harkness, eds.,* special issue of *Anthropological Quarterly* 88(2):287–320.

Harkness, Nicholas. 2015. "Voicing Christian Aspiration: The Semiotic Anthropology of Voice in Seoul.” *Ethnography* 16(3):313–330.

Harkness, Nicholas. 2015. “The Pragmatics of Qualia in Practice.” *Annual Review of Anthropology* 44:573–89.

Harkness, Nicholas. 2015. “Other Christians as Christian Others: Signs of New Christian Populations and the Urban Expansion of Seoul.” *Handbook of Religion and the Asian City: Aspiration and Urbanization in the Twenty-First Century*. Peter van der Veer, ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 333–350.

Harkness, Nicholas. 2015. “Linguistic Emblems of South Korean Society.” *Handbook of Korean Linguistics.* Lucien Brown and Jaehoon Yeon, eds. Wiley-Blackwell, 492–508.

Chumley, Lily Hope and Nicholas Harkness. 2013. “Introduction: QUALIA.” *Anthropological Theory* 13(1/2):3–11.

Harkness, Nicholas. 2013. “Softer Soju in South Korea.” *QUALIA,* Lily Hope Chumley and Nicholas Harkness, eds., special double issue of *Anthropological TheoryAnthropological Theory* 13(1/2):12–30.

Harkness, Nicholas. 2012. “Vowel Harmony Redux: Correct Sounds, English Loan Words, and the Sociocultural Life of a Phonological Structure in Korean.” *Journal of Sociolinguistics* 16(3):358–381.

Harkness, Nicholas. 2012. “Encore!: Homecoming Recitals in Christian South Korea.” *Journal of Korean Studies* 17(2):351–382.

Harkness, Nicholas. 2011. “Culture and Interdiscursivity in Korean Fricative Voice Gestures.” *Journal of Linguistic Anthropology* 21(1):99–123.

Harkness, Nicholas. 2011. “Qualities, Qualia, and Qualisigns: The Case of Softer Soju in South Korea.” *Integrating East Asian Medicine into Contemporary Healthcare.* Volker Scheid and Hugh Macpherson, eds. Oxford: Elsevier. Pp. 41–2.

Harkness, Nicholas. 2011. “Anthropology at the Phonosonic Nexus.” *Anthropology News* 52(1):5

Harkness, Nicholas. 2010. “Words in Motion and the Semiotics of the Unseen in Two Korean Churches.” *Language & Communication* 30(2):139–158.