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Linguistic diversity and social justice out now

Ingrid Piller, Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice, Oxford University Press, March 2016 Oxford University Press has just released Ingrid Piller’s new book Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice: An Introduction to…

Lg_on_the_moveMarch 23, 2016

Language and law

Guidelines for communicating rights to non-native speakers of English

"You have the right to remain silent" (Source: Tumblr) “You have the right to remain silent” is an expression familiar to many English speakers. But what is involved in understanding…

Diana EadesDecember 2, 2015

Multilingual families

Children as language brokers

Nizaqete Bislimi (Source: DuMont Verlag / Franz Brück) Some of the most striking images from the refugees who have been trekking across Europe are of families and children. Beyond the…

Ingrid PillerOctober 7, 2015

Language and migration

Bitter gifts: migrants’ exclusive inclusion

Condemned to consume 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…

Ingrid PillerSeptember 10, 2015

Language and migration

Getting past the ‘indigenous’ vs. ‘immigrant’ language debate

"The English" migrated to their "ancestral homeland" in the first few centuries of the Common Era (Source: Wikipedia) “Indigenous languages” and “immigrant languages” are much discussed in language policy research,…

Dave SayersAugust 12, 2015

Language, Education and Settlement: A Sociolinguistic Ethnography on, with, and for Africans in Australia

Tetteh, Vera W. 2015. Language, Education and Settlement: A Sociolinguistic Ethnography on, with, and for Africans in Australia. PhD thesis, Macquarie University. Vera Williams Tetteh has just completed her PhD…

Lg_on_the_moveJuly 29, 2015

Language and migration

Language or religion: which is the greater fault line in diverse societies?

Churchill Square Shopping Mall, Brighton, UK (Source: Wikipedia) In a shopping mall in the city of Brighton, UK, a tourist was arrested on terrorism charges last week for taking a…

Ingrid PillerJuly 8, 2015

Language in education

Educational success through bilingual education

Children in a bilingual program in Hamburg (Source: AlsterKind) It is a key finding of contemporary educational research that the children of migrants experience educational disadvantage vis-à-vis their native-born peers.…

Ingrid PillerJune 17, 2015

Language and law

We all have a culture, we all speak a language: the Australian legal system discusses diversity

Panel on Representing Culturally Diverse Clients Cultural Diversity and the Law: Access to justice in multicultural Australia was a conference held in Sydney on the 13th and 14th of March.…

Laura Smith-KhanApril 22, 2015

Language in education

Children of the harvest: schooling, class and race

Children of migrant cotton field workers from Oklahoma (Source: Library of Congress) I’ve just come across a fascinating article about the schooling of migrant children during the Great Depression era…

Ingrid PillerApril 8, 2015

Language politics

Language Politics and Policy in Contemporary Maharashtra

Hutatma Smarak (Martyrs's Memorial) on Flora Square in Mumbai constructed in the memory of 106 people killed during the agitation for the creation of Unified Maharashtra. The two individuals in…

Deepak PawarJanuary 28, 2015

Language in Australia

Linguistic diversity and social inclusion in Australia

2012 workshop on 'Linguistic Diversity and Social Inclusion in Australia' at Macquarie University How does language intersect with social inclusion in contemporary Australia? Do social inclusion policies address linguistic diversity?…

Lg_on_the_moveNovember 25, 2014

Language deficit in super-diversity

Linguistic diversity in Sydney (Source: Sydney Morning Herald) The media in Anglophone countries regularly engage in a bit of a bragfest about the linguistic diversity of their cities. In Sydney,…

Ingrid PillerAugust 20, 2014

Language at work

Linguistic penalty in the job interview

Success levels of different candidate groups in job interviews for low-skilled jobs (Source: Roberts 2013, p. 89) A common explanation for the un- and underemployment of migrants is that their…

Ingrid PillerMarch 31, 2014

Intercultural communication

Emergency service provision in linguistically diverse societies

The challenges of providing equitable services in linguistically diverse societies A few years ago, emergency service provision to speakers of languages other than English in Australia came under scrutiny when…

Ingrid PillerFebruary 6, 2014

Language at work

Monolingualism is bad for the economy

Losing their heritage language decreases the earning potential of 2nd-generation migrants In most countries of immigration, linguistic diversity is by and large ignored by policy makers. If there are language-related…

Ingrid PillerDecember 4, 2013

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