Life in a New Language

AvIngrid Piller,Donna Butorac

Häftad, 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-09-25
Mått:157 x 235 x 11 mm
Vikt:327 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:216
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780190084295

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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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This volume breaks new ground by focusing on Doings: a group of diverse researchers collaboratively doing close listening and looking over 20 years, as adult immigrants to Australia engage in doing life, things, words, family, and work in a new language. The result is not only new understandings of the participants' self-making, but also the making of a new research trajectory that focuses not simply on the learning of a language, but on humanity doing life in language." Ofelia García, The Graduate Center, City University of New York)

Innehållsförteckning

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