All posts; Tags Include "Linguistics"
- September 21, 2016
- 12:46 AM
- 97 views
Can ESL teachers play a role in helping maintain the home language?
by Agnes Bodis in Language on the Move
ESL teachers play an important role in home language maintenance (Image Credit: Macquarie University)
Learning the host country’s language is important for migrants but we should not forget that maintaining the home language is just as essential for the next generation’s success in life. Unfortunately, in Australia there are no policies in place that support the home language maintenance of languages other than English. In the absence of top-down approaches, changing........ Read more »
Schalley, A., Guillemin, D., & Eisenchlas, S. (2015) Multilingualism and assimilationism in Australia's literacy-related educational policies. International Journal of Multilingualism, 12(2), 162-177. DOI: 10.1080/14790718.2015.1009372
- September 14, 2016
- 11:24 PM
- 143 views
Language and migration
by Ingrid Piller in Language on the Move
Humans are a migratory species. Although in modern society the dominant imagery we have created about ourselves is that it...... Read more »
Piller, I. (2016) Language and migration. Language and migration, 1-20. info:/
- September 6, 2016
- 12:34 AM
- 191 views
Why a multilingual social imagination matters
by Ingrid Piller in Language on the Move
Last week I was fortunate to be able to attend the 2016 annual conference of the British Association of Applied...... Read more »
Piller, I. (2016) Linguistic Diversity and Participation. Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice. DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199937240.003.0006
- July 17, 2016
- 04:57 AM
- 349 views
Would you mind if your child wanted to become an interpreter?
by Jinhyun Cho in Language on the Move
I recently volunteered to give a presentation on the profession of translation and interpreting as a parent helper for a...... Read more »
Cho, J. (2015) Sleepless in Seoul: Neoliberalism, English fever, and linguistic insecurity among Korean interpreters. Multilingua, 34(5), 687-710. DOI: 10.1515/multi-2013-0047
- June 29, 2016
- 06:20 AM
- 379 views
Birdsong Babel: Different birds use different grammar rules
by gdw in FictionalFieldwork
Zizou listens carefully. She ignores her confines and tries to focus on the intruder’s song. There’s something odd about it. Something she can’t quite put her feather on. It’s familiar, yet… not familiar. The intruder is strong. He or she keeps signing incessantly. There’s no sight of him or her, though. She has to make a […]... Read more »
Olkowicz S, Kocourek M, Lučan RK, Porteš M, Fitch WT, Herculano-Houzel S, & Němec P. (2016) Birds have primate-like numbers of neurons in the forebrain. PNAS, 113(26), 7255-60. PMID: 27298365
Spierings, M., & ten Cate, C. (2016) Budgerigars and zebra finches differ in how they generalize in an artificial grammar learning experiment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(27). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1600483113
- June 5, 2016
- 01:05 AM
- 411 views
Why does English spread in global academia?
by Jinhyun Cho in Language on the Move
The Linguistic Ethnography Forum’s e-seminar devoted to Ingrid Piller’s recent book Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice: An Introduction to Applied...... Read more »
Piller, I., & Cho, J. (2013) Neoliberalism as language policy. Language in Society, 42(01), 23-44. DOI: 10.1017/S0047404512000887
- May 11, 2016
- 01:10 AM
- 469 views
Do monolingual teachers produce a Golem effect in multilingual students?
by Ingrid Piller in Language on the Move
Teacher expectations produce self-fulfilling prophecies in student performance: high teacher expectations result in students’ higher academic performance and low teacher...... Read more »
Babad, E., Inbar, J., & Rosenthal, R. (1982) Pygmalion, Galatea, and the Golem: Investigations of biased and unbiased teachers. Journal of Educational Psychology, 74(4), 459-474. DOI: 10.1037/0022-0663.74.4.459
Pulinx, R., Van Avermaet, P., & Agirdag, O. (2015) Silencing linguistic diversity: the extent, the determinants and consequences of the monolingual beliefs of Flemish teachers. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 1-15. DOI: 10.1080/13670050.2015.1102860
- April 28, 2016
- 06:19 AM
- 554 views
Portrait of a linguistic shirker
by Ingrid Piller in Language on the Move
I recently pointed out that the widespread belief that migrants refuse to learn the language of their new country does not stack up against the realities of adult language learning. I summarized the research that shows that adult language learning is complex and difficult and rarely an all-out success; to blame migrants for their failure to learn a new language (well) is adding insult to injury.
The German-language club (“Stammtisch”) in New York founded by G........ Read more »
Azuélos, D. (2008) L'exil dans l'exil Les stratégies linguistiques contradictoires des exilés aux États-Unis (Thomas Mann, Klaus Mann, Hans Sahl, Oskar Maria Graf). Études Germaniques, 252(4), 723. DOI: 10.3917/eger.252.0723
- April 12, 2016
- 06:11 PM
- 539 views
Cleaning work: a stepping-stone or a dead-end job for migrants?
by Maiju Strommer in Language on the Move
Let me at once introduce you to the main character of this blog post: Kifibin. He is a Ugandan man...... Read more »
Strömmer, M. (2015) Affordances and constraints: Second language learning in cleaning work. Multilingua. DOI: 10.1515/multi-2014-0113
- April 6, 2016
- 06:23 AM
- 646 views
The language that cannot speak its name
by Ingrid Piller in Language on the Move
Our understanding of the role of language in social life suffers from a particularly intractable problem: the terms we use...... Read more »
Piller, I. (2016) Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice. Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199937240.003.0005
Vathi, Z., Duci, V., & Dhembo, E. (2016) Homeland (dis)integrations: Educational Experience, Children and Return Migration to Albania. International Migration. DOI: 10.1111/imig.12230
- March 30, 2016
- 03:19 AM
- 541 views
The real problem with linguistic shirkers
by Ingrid Piller in Language on the Move
Germany has discovered a new social type that is causing grieve in modern diverse societies: the “Integrationsverweigerer;” literally someone who...... Read more »
Piller, I. (2016) Linguistic diversity and social justice. Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199937240.003.0003
- March 17, 2016
- 04:44 PM
- 298 views
Once upon a time… On the origin of fairy tales
by gdw in FictionalFieldwork
(Also appeared on United Academics Magazine) Once upon a time, around 6 000 years ago, there lived a blacksmith. This blacksmith was a true craftsman, always looking for ways to improve his metal-moulding skills. When he had practised all he could, he saw only one way towards perfection: a demonic deal. So he called forth […]... Read more »
da Silva SG, & Tehrani JJ. (2016) Comparative phylogenetic analyses uncover the ancient roots of Indo-European folktales. Royal Society open science, 3(1), 150645. PMID: 26909191
- March 14, 2016
- 06:10 PM
- 599 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
- 623 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
- 787 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
- 703 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
- 656 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
- 548 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
- 870 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 24, 2015
- 04:36 PM
- 764 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
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