Life in a New Language

AvIngrid Piller,Donna Butorac

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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International migration and the social diversity it creates constitute one of the key global challenges of the early 21st century. Language and communication barriers can compromise equitable access in diverse societies, and where socioeconomic disadvantage becomes entrenched, it poses risks to security, productivity and quality of life. Clearly this is an important issue, and migrants and their language choices are heavily politicized; though political and media debates often rely on anecdotal conjecture or are ill-informed.Life in a New Language examines the language learning and settlement experiences of 130 migrants to Australia from 34 different countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America over a period of 20 years. Reusing data shared from six separate sociolinguistic ethnographies, the book illuminates participants' lived experience of learning and communicating in a new language, finding work, and doing family. Additionally, participants' experiences with racism and identity making in a new context are explored. The research uncovers significant hardship but also migrants' courage and resilience. The book has implications for language service provision, migration policy, open science, and social justice movements.

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-09-19
Mått:140 x 210 x 17 mm
Vikt:970 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:216
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780190084288

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Ingrid Piller is Distinguished Professor of Applied Linguistics at Macquarie University, Sydney, and founding editor of Language on the Move.Donna Butorac is a Senior Lecturer and Course Coordinator of Anthropology and Sociology at Curtin University, Perth.Emily Farrell is the Global Commercial Director for Open Research at Taylor & Francis.Loy Lising is a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at Macquarie University, Sydney.Shiva Motaghi-Tabari is an Honorary Research Fellow in Linguistics at Macquarie University, Sydney.Vera Williams Tetteh is an Honorary Research Fellow in Linguistics at Macquarie University, Sydney.

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Without any exaggeration this is one of the best books I've read in a long time. I am blown away by not only the variety of stories, but also how they are analyzed with keen insight and clear links to policy/planning, all without ever getting bogged down in academia-ese. I was even able to see myself in many of the stories, despite that I obviously came to Australia with both English background proficiency and the "non-immigrant" image you discuss in the text. Noting how others dealt with their experiences was eye-opening, and made me appreciate even further the hard work that goes in to joining a new community who speak a different language than you, or even a different English than the one you expect.

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Acknowledgments. Or: The story of this book Note on pseudonyms, transcription, and translation List of participants List of abbreviations Chapter 1: "Swimming poor in a raging river." Doing things with words in a new language Chapter 2: "English opens all the doors in the world." Arriving in a new language Chapter 3: "In my world, no one's got a job with an Australian company." Looking for work in a new language Chapter 4: "Our life is becoming colorful again." Finding a voice in a new language Chapter 5: "This is all for our children, for their future." Doing family in a new language Chapter 6: "Sometimes the White people get angry." Facing discrimination in a new language Chapter 7: "I have many faces." Self-making in a new language Chapter 8: Rethinking language and migration How to use this book in teaching References