Comments on: Lost in bilingual parenting https://languageonthemove.com/lost-in-bilingual-parenting/ Multilingualism, Intercultural communication, Consumerism, Globalization, Gender & Identity, Migration & Social Justice, Language & Tourism Tue, 09 Dec 2014 02:48:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Ingrid Piller https://languageonthemove.com/lost-in-bilingual-parenting/#comment-45644 Tue, 09 Dec 2014 02:48:16 +0000 http://www.languageonthemove.com/?p=18599#comment-45644 Thanks, Victoria! I’ve been following that story with some interest and am fascinated by the language ideological farce that is being played out, particularly under the trending hashtag #yallaCSU!
I get the delightful impression that the CSU suggestion has been offered to a “mature multilingual” public! 🙂

]]> By: Victoria Benz https://languageonthemove.com/lost-in-bilingual-parenting/#comment-45642 Mon, 08 Dec 2014 09:08:52 +0000 http://www.languageonthemove.com/?p=18599#comment-45642 Such bewilderment may also be increased if politicians try to control migrant families’ language use at home – as currently debated in Bavaria, Germany.
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/csu-in-bayern-migranten-sollen-im-wohnzimmer-deutsch-sprechen-a-1006904.html

]]> By: Paul Desailly https://languageonthemove.com/lost-in-bilingual-parenting/#comment-45640 Fri, 05 Dec 2014 03:41:03 +0000 http://www.languageonthemove.com/?p=18599#comment-45640 So deep, so old and so international are the issues raised here by Shiva that only a global solution is viable and that a unity of vision in the theoretical position-come-solution held by intellectuals and other notables is an essential prerequisite.

Actually, it’s only the location and the mother language concerned that changes in Shiva’s moving and informed account (a rare combining of intellect and sentiment in the one person) were I to recount details of my recent language congress in Iran or my ten year language odyssey in China not long ago or my twelve months in Poland back in 1995 for they all share this notion of the language of emotions juxtaposed with the language of detachment and they all share what prima facie seems an insurmountable problem, discussed ad infinitum .

What’s required in the first instance is for opinion-formers in the open and in the shadows to accept in theory that the only solution to this Babel-long problem is a universally agreed upon universal auxiliary language and then to convene an empowered forum at a modified UN which sees beyond its present six language policy. The UN can evolve as did the LON. Failing this starting point every eloquent expounder on earth is entitled and will continue to speculate as to solutions or as to which language should dominate in schools, commerce, diplomacy etc and all individuals may end up none the wiser.

A universal auxiliary language of whatever choice taught to all kids in all schools is a cure .

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