All posts; Tags Include "Language"
- March 14, 2016
- 06:10 PM
- 72 views
Crucial communication: language management in Australian asylum interviews
by Laura Smith-Khan in Language on the Move
Asylum seekers in Australia face a few very public hurdles. Successive governments have used increasingly restrictive refugee policies to gain...... Read more »
Smith-Khan, L. (2016) Negotiating narratives, accessing asylum: Evaluating language policy as multi-level practice, beliefs and management. Multilingua. DOI: 10.1515/multi-2015-0072
- March 8, 2016
- 09:22 PM
- 112 views
Temples helping heritage language maintenance in Australia
by Niru Perera in Language on the Move
Do you know which non-Christian religion has grown the fastest in Australia since the new millennium? You might be surprised...... Read more »
Perera, N. (2016) Tamil in the temples – Language and religious maintenance beyond the first generation. Multilingua. info:/10.1515/multi-2015-0059
- March 3, 2016
- 09:01 PM
- 137 views
Herder: an explainer for linguists
by Ingrid Piller in Language on the Move
Some contemporary sociolinguists love to hate an 18th century educator, philosopher, theologian, translator and general polymath by the name of...... Read more »
Piller, I. (2015) Monolingual ways of seeing multilingualism. Journal of Multicultural Discourses, 1-9. DOI: 10.1080/17447143.2015.1102921
- February 27, 2016
- 12:00 AM
- 126 views
Sticks and stones (3): How names hurt
by Michael Ramscar in The Importance of Being Wrong
The shock of the old
Most people in Iceland don’t have family names. Instead, Icelanders’ last names are made from their father or mother’s first name, to which males add the suffix -son (son) and females -dóttir (daughter). This practice can seem strange to outsiders, but it was common throughout Scandinavia until surprisingly recently: laws compelling citizens to adopt heritable family names were only enacted in 1828 in Denmark, 1901 in Sweden, and 1922 in Norway......... Read more »
Baek SK, Kiet HA, & Kim BJ. (2007) Family name distributions: master equation approach. Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics, 76(4 Pt 2), 46113. PMID: 17995066
Bertrand, M., & Mullainathan, S. (2004) Are Emily and Greg More Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination. American Economic Review, 94(4), 991-1013. DOI: 10.1257/0002828042002561
Chang, J., Donnelly, P., Wiuf, C., Hein, J., Slatkin, M., Ewens, W., & Kingman, J. (1999) Recent common ancestors of all present-day individuals. Advances in Applied Probability, 31(4), 1002-1026. DOI: 10.1239/aap/1029955256
Colman, A., Sluckin, W., & Hargreaves, D. (1981) The effect of familiarity on preferences for surnames. British Journal of Psychology, 72(3), 363-369. DOI: 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1981.tb02195.x
Colman, A., Hargreaves, D., & Sluckin, W. (1981) Preferences for Christian names as a function of their experienced familiarity. British Journal of Social Psychology, 20(1), 3-5. DOI: 10.1111/j.2044-8309.1981.tb00465.x
A. Crook. (2012) Personal Names in 18th-Century Scotland: a case study of the parish of Beith (North Ayrshire). Journal of Scottish Name Studies, 1-10. info:/
Guo, J., Chen, Q., & Wang, Y. (2011) Statistical distribution of Chinese names. Chinese Physics B, 20(11), 118901. DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/20/11/118901
Shannon, C., Gallager, R., & Berlekamp, E. (1967) Lower bounds to error probability for coding on discrete memoryless channels. I. Information and Control, 10(1), 65-103. DOI: 10.1016/S0019-9958(67)90052-6
Shannon, C. (1948) A Mathematical Theory of Communication. Bell System Technical Journal, 27(3), 379-423. DOI: 10.1002/j.1538-7305.1948.tb01338.x
Shannon, C. (1951) Prediction and Entropy of Printed English. Bell System Technical Journal, 30(1), 50-64. DOI: 10.1002/j.1538-7305.1951.tb01366.x
- February 9, 2016
- 05:40 PM
- 181 views
Alles in Ordnung? Reflections on German order
by Rahel Cramer in Language on the Move
Everyone who has learned a second language will have noticed that certain words and expressions cannot be translated easily from...... Read more »
Cramer, R. (2015) German Ordnung: A semantic and ethnopragmatic analysis of a core cultural value . International Journal of Language and Culture, 2(2), 269-293. DOI: 10.1075/ijolc.2.2.06cra
- January 26, 2016
- 06:18 PM
- 206 views
Ways of seeing
by Ingrid Piller in Language on the Move
Here in Australia we celebrated our national holiday yesterday. Australia Day marks the end of the summer holiday season and as everyone heads back to school and work, Language on the Move is coming back from our break, too. Welcome … Continue reading →... Read more »
Piller, I. (2015) Monolingual ways of seeing multilingualism. Journal of Multicultural Discourses, 1-9. DOI: 10.1080/17447143.2015.1102921
- December 8, 2015
- 04:43 PM
- 355 views
Discrimination by any other name: Language tests and racist migration policy in Australia
by Laura Smith-Khan in Language on the Move
Australia has a proud national narrative of migration and multiculturalism. It also has an equally prevalent history of exclusionary and discriminatory migration policy. Perhaps the most famous is its “White Australia Policy”, which sought to restrict the migration of “non-European” … Continue reading →... Read more »
McNamara, T. (2012) Language Assessments as Shibboleths: A Poststructuralist Perspective. Applied Linguistics, 33(5), 564-581. DOI: 10.1093/applin/ams052
- November 27, 2015
- 10:45 PM
- 359 views
A Treatise on the Physics and Psychology of Heavy Metal Music
by Amiya Sarkar in Physiology physics woven fine
A rather panoramic view of the heavy metal arena encompassing various aspects of science and psychology. ... Read more »
Jesse L. Silverberg, Matthew Bierbaum, James P. Sethna, & Itai Cohen. (2013) Collective Motion of Moshers at Heavy Metal Concerts. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.228701. arXiv: 1302.1886v1
- November 24, 2015
- 04:36 PM
- 318 views
Cultural brokering
by Ingrid Piller in Language on the Move
Recently, I signed a contract for a revised second edition of my 2011 book Intercultural Communication: A Critical Introduction to be published in 2017. One way in which I am planning to extend the book is to have a greater … Continue reading →... Read more »
Boyle, J. (1971) Rashīd al-Dīn: The First World Historian. Iran, 19-26. DOI: 10.2307/4300435
- November 18, 2015
- 05:49 PM
- 351 views
Sticks and stones (2): How names work
by Michael Ramscar in The Importance of Being Wrong
A stranger in the village On immigrating to Sweden, migrants are given the option of exchanging their current last name for one that sounds a little more Swedish. The process is administered by the Patent- och registreringsverket – the Patent and Registration Office (PRV) – and of the many rules it enforces, an important one requires that anyone wanting to adopt a Swedish surname prove their […]... Read more »
Arai, M., & Skogman Thoursie, P. (2009) Renouncing Personal Names: An Empirical Examination of Surname Change and Earnings. Journal of Labor Economics, 27(1), 127-147. DOI: 10.1086/593964
Brown, P. F., Pietra, V. J. D., Mercer, R. L., Pietra, S. A. D., & Lai, J. C. (1992) An estimate of an upper bound for the entropy of English. Computational Linguistics, 18(1), 31-40. info:/
Shannon, C. (1948) A Mathematical Theory of Communication. Bell System Technical Journal, 27(3), 379-423. DOI: 10.1002/j.1538-7305.1948.tb01338.x
Shannon, C., Gallager, R., & Berlekamp, E. (1967) Lower bounds to error probability for coding on discrete memoryless channels. I. Information and Control, 10(1), 65-103. DOI: 10.1016/S0019-9958(67)90052-6
- October 27, 2015
- 06:09 PM
- 374 views
“Made in Germany” at risk? Volkswagen and the German trademark
by Rahel Cramer in Language on the Move
The Volkswagen (VW) emissions scandal has received significant media coverage in and outside of Germany. Besides accounts of the developments that led to the discovery of Volkswagen’s unethical behaviour, the immediate impacts on the company’s finances, CEO Martin Winterkorn’s resignation … Continue reading →... Read more »
Piller, I. (2003) Advertising as a site of language contact. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 170-183. DOI: 10.1017/S0267190503000254
- October 26, 2015
- 04:00 AM
- 324 views
Sticks and stones (1): How names work & why they hurt
by Michael Ramscar in The Importance of Being Wrong
Boiling a frog In 1781, Christian Wilhelm von Dohm, a civil servant, political writer and historian in what was then Prussia published a two volume work entitled Über die Bürgerliche Verbesserung der Juden (“On the Civic Improvement of Jews”). In it, von Dohm laid out the case for emancipation for a people systematically denied the […]... Read more »
Bertrand, M., & Mullainathan, S. (2004) Are Emily and Greg More Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination. American Economic Review, 94(4), 991-1013. DOI: 10.1257/0002828042002561
Colman, A., Hargreaves, D., & Sluckin, W. (1981) Preferences for Christian names as a function of their experienced familiarity. British Journal of Social Psychology, 20(1), 3-5. DOI: 10.1111/j.2044-8309.1981.tb00465.x
Fryer, R., & Levitt, S. (2004) The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 119(3), 767-805. DOI: 10.1162/0033553041502180
Nunley, J.M., Pugh, A., Romero, N., & Seals, R.A. (2014) An Examination of Racial Discrimination in the Labor Market for Recent College Graduates: Estimates from the Field. Auburn Economics Working Paper Series. info:/
Zajonc, R. (1968) Attitudinal effects of mere exposure. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 9(2), 1-27. DOI: 10.1037/h0025848
- October 15, 2015
- 08:34 PM
- 278 views
How Do Young Children Choose What Words To Learn?
by Marie Benz in MedicalResearch.com
MedicalResearch.com Interview with: Arielle Borovsky, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Psychology Florida State University Tallahassee, FL 32306 Medical Research: What motivated this research? Dr. Borovsky: Early vocabulary learning sets the stage for many other language and academic skills. It is … Continue reading →
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Arielle Borovsky, PhD. (2015) How Do Young Children Choose What Words To Learn?. MedicalResearch.com. info:/
- October 14, 2015
- 08:30 AM
- 337 views
Talking About Animals: The Vegan and the Foxhunter
by CAPB in Companion Animal Psychology Blog
There are surprises in the language used to talk about animals. A vegan and a fox hunter have completely opposed views of animals. Yet analyzing how they talk shows some similarities, according to research by Guy Cook (King’s College, London). He studied interviews with a spokesperson for the Vegan Society and a spokesperson for the pro-foxhunting group The Countryside Alliance. Foxhunting has been illegal in the UK since 2005, and only a quarter of one per cent of the UK is vegan, s........ Read more »
Cook, G. (2015) 'A pig is a person' or 'You can love a fox and hunt it': Innovation and tradition in the discursive representation of animals. Discourse , 26(5), 587-607. DOI: 10.1177/0957926515576639
- October 7, 2015
- 12:28 AM
- 376 views
Children as language brokers
by Ingrid Piller in Language on the Move
Some of the most striking images from the refugees who have been trekking across Europe are of families and children. Beyond the immediate perils of their journeys, migration inevitably changes families. As children are usually much quicker to learn new … Continue reading →... Read more »
Bauer, E. (2013) Reconstructing Moral Identities in Memories of Childhood Language Brokering Experiences. International Migration, 51(5), 205-218. DOI: 10.1111/imig.12030
- September 25, 2015
- 06:25 AM
- 90 views
Scientists unravel mysteries around rhythm and language
by Cath Jex in Tak Fur The Kaffe
Struggling to learn a language? How are your musical skills? Scientists discover some of the hidden ways in which the two are linked.... Read more »
Tierney, A., & Kraus, N. (2015) Evidence for Multiple Rhythmic Skills. PLOS ONE, 10(9). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0136645
- September 22, 2015
- 09:23 PM
- 424 views
Who is a real refugee?
by Agnes Bodis in Language on the Move
The refugee crisis in Europe has caught a lot of global media attention. Countries at the entry points and their official actions, as well civil organizations, get a lot of attention in online media; furthermore, social media comments quite often … Continue reading →... Read more »
Baker, P., Gabrielatos, C., KhosraviNik, M., Krzyzanowski, M., McEnery, T., & Wodak, R. (2008) A useful methodological synergy? Combining critical discourse analysis and corpus linguistics to examine discourses of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK press. Discourse , 19(3), 273-306. DOI: 10.1177/0957926508088962
- September 18, 2015
- 05:34 AM
- 474 views
What Do Bats and Plants Have in Common? High-pitched Screaming!
by Chiara Civardi in United Academics
Polyglot like a pitcher plant or cryptolectic like a sperm whale?
A: “Pitcher Tower, this is Bat K hardwickii, established ILS 16. Do you copy me?”
B: “Bat K hardwickii, clear to land. Please confirm: are you ready to discharge the cargo?”
A: “Roger. Affirmative.”
This is how I imagined a conversation between the tropical carnivorous pitcher plant Nepenthes hemsleyana and the bat Kerivoula hardwickii would go. No, I am not on drugs; bats and plants can........ Read more »
Cantor M, Shoemaker LG, Cabral RB, Flores CO, Varga M, & Whitehead H. (2015) Multilevel animal societies can emerge from cultural transmission. Nature communications, 8091. PMID: 26348688
Schöner MG, Schöner CR, Simon R, Grafe TU, Puechmaille SJ, Ji LL, & Kerth G. (2015) Bats Are Acoustically Attracted to Mutualistic Carnivorous Plants. Current biology : CB, 25(14), 1911-6. PMID: 26166777
- September 10, 2015
- 07:18 AM
- 452 views
Bitter gifts: migrants’ exclusive inclusion
by Ingrid Piller in Language on the Move
My migration newsfeed in the past few weeks has been dominated by news about the Syrian refugee crisis and the various European and international responses. But there have also been two other noteworthy migration news: one relates to the changing … Continue reading →... Read more »
Roberman, S. (2015) Not to Be Hungry Is Not Enough: An Insight Into Contours of Inclusion and Exclusion in Affluent Western Societies. Sociological Forum, 30(3), 743-763. DOI: 10.1111/socf.12190
- September 3, 2015
- 08:28 PM
- 524 views
Reproducibility project: A front row seat
by Dan Mirman in Minding the Brain
A recent paper in Science reports the results of a large-scale effort to test reproducibility in psychological science. The results have caused much discussion (as well they should) in both general public and science forums. I thought I would offer my perspective as the lead author of one of the studies that was included in the reproducibility analysis. I had heard about the project even before being contacted to participate and one of the things that appealed to me about it was that they were t........ Read more »
Open Science Collaboration. (2015) Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science. Science, 349(6251). DOI: 10.1126/science.aac4716
Mirman, D., & Magnuson, J. (2008) Attractor dynamics and semantic neighborhood density: Processing is slowed by near neighbors and speeded by distant neighbors. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 34(1), 65-79. DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.34.1.65
Mirman, D. (2010) Effects of near and distant semantic neighbors on word production. Cognitive, Affective, , 11(1), 32-43. DOI: 10.3758/s13415-010-0009-7
Mirman, D., & Graziano, K. (2013) The Neural Basis of Inhibitory Effects of Semantic and Phonological Neighbors in Spoken Word Production. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 25(9), 1504-1516. DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00408
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