Ingrid Piller is Professor of Applied Linguistics at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Her research expertise is in Intercultural Communication, the Sociolinguistics of Language Learning and Multilingualism, and Bilingual Education. She serves as editor-in-chief of the international sociolinguistics journal Multilingua and curates the sociolinguistics portal Language on the Move.

Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice is an absorbing selection of stories and voices from around the world, woven into an anthology that highlights the social consequences of a range of linguistic injustices ... it adds to existing literature on the multilingual turn by making connections across settings, communities, and cultures.

• Acknowledgements1: IntroductionLinguistic diversitySocial justiceOverviewJoin the conversation2: Linguistic diversity and stratificationLanguage, multilingualism, linguistic diversityHierarchy in diversityLanguage pyramidsThe diversity of the OtherSeeing 'super-diversity'Inventing homogeneitySummary3: The subordination of linguistic diversityThe territorial principleLanguage segregationDebating the territorial principleLinguistic diversity and personal responsibilityGrassroots language learningJudging speakersLinguistic diversity and moral worthRemaking language learnersSummary4: Linguistic diversity at workLanguage proficiency as a barrier to employmentWhat's in a name?Job interviewsMultiple vulnerabilitiesSurvival employment and deskillingLanguage learning on the jobSuppressing linguistic diversityAlternative language regimesSummary5: Linguistic diversity in education The monolingual habitus of multilingual schoolsSubmersion educationCompounding disadvantageTesting against linguistic diversityMisdiagnosing language proficiencyDenying the benefits of multilingualismSummary6: Linguistic diversity and participationLinguistic barriers to participationLanguage and the gender gapLinguistically-motivated violenceMicro-aggressionsLinguistic alienationSummary7: Linguistic diversity and global justiceLanguage and developmentInjustices of English language educationInjustices of English as global academic languagePaying tribute to the Anglophone centerPsychological damages of global EnglishSummary8: Linguistic justiceNormative linguistic justiceReal linguistic utopiasThe struggle for linguistic justiceReferences

Ingrid Piller is Professor of Applied Linguistics at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Her research expertise is in Intercultural Communication, the Sociolinguistics of Language Learning and Multilingualism, and Bilingual Education. She serves as editor-in-chief of the international sociolinguistics journal Multilingua and curates the sociolinguistics portal Language on the Move.

Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice is an absorbing selection of stories and voices from around the world, woven into an anthology that highlights the social consequences of a range of linguistic injustices ... it adds to existing literature on the multilingual turn by making connections across settings, communities, and cultures.

• Acknowledgements1: IntroductionLinguistic diversitySocial justiceOverviewJoin the conversation2: Linguistic diversity and stratificationLanguage, multilingualism, linguistic diversityHierarchy in diversityLanguage pyramidsThe diversity of the OtherSeeing 'super-diversity'Inventing homogeneitySummary3: The subordination of linguistic diversityThe territorial principleLanguage segregationDebating the territorial principleLinguistic diversity and personal responsibilityGrassroots language learningJudging speakersLinguistic diversity and moral worthRemaking language learnersSummary4: Linguistic diversity at workLanguage proficiency as a barrier to employmentWhat's in a name?Job interviewsMultiple vulnerabilitiesSurvival employment and deskillingLanguage learning on the jobSuppressing linguistic diversityAlternative language regimesSummary5: Linguistic diversity in education The monolingual habitus of multilingual schoolsSubmersion educationCompounding disadvantageTesting against linguistic diversityMisdiagnosing language proficiencyDenying the benefits of multilingualismSummary6: Linguistic diversity and participationLinguistic barriers to participationLanguage and the gender gapLinguistically-motivated violenceMicro-aggressionsLinguistic alienationSummary7: Linguistic diversity and global justiceLanguage and developmentInjustices of English language educationInjustices of English as global academic languagePaying tribute to the Anglophone centerPsychological damages of global EnglishSummary8: Linguistic justiceNormative linguistic justiceReal linguistic utopiasThe struggle for linguistic justiceReferences

Ingrid Piller is Professor of Applied Linguistics at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Her research expertise is in Intercultural Communication, the Sociolinguistics of Language Learning and Multilingualism, and Bilingual Education. She serves as editor-in-chief of the international sociolinguistics journal Multilingua and curates the sociolinguistics portal Language on the Move.

Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice is an absorbing selection of stories and voices from around the world, woven into an anthology that highlights the social consequences of a range of linguistic injustices ... it adds to existing literature on the multilingual turn by making connections across settings, communities, and cultures.

• Acknowledgements1: IntroductionLinguistic diversitySocial justiceOverviewJoin the conversation2: Linguistic diversity and stratificationLanguage, multilingualism, linguistic diversityHierarchy in diversityLanguage pyramidsThe diversity of the OtherSeeing 'super-diversity'Inventing homogeneitySummary3: The subordination of linguistic diversityThe territorial principleLanguage segregationDebating the territorial principleLinguistic diversity and personal responsibilityGrassroots language learningJudging speakersLinguistic diversity and moral worthRemaking language learnersSummary4: Linguistic diversity at workLanguage proficiency as a barrier to employmentWhat's in a name?Job interviewsMultiple vulnerabilitiesSurvival employment and deskillingLanguage learning on the jobSuppressing linguistic diversityAlternative language regimesSummary5: Linguistic diversity in education The monolingual habitus of multilingual schoolsSubmersion educationCompounding disadvantageTesting against linguistic diversityMisdiagnosing language proficiencyDenying the benefits of multilingualismSummary6: Linguistic diversity and participationLinguistic barriers to participationLanguage and the gender gapLinguistically-motivated violenceMicro-aggressionsLinguistic alienationSummary7: Linguistic diversity and global justiceLanguage and developmentInjustices of English language educationInjustices of English as global academic languagePaying tribute to the Anglophone centerPsychological damages of global EnglishSummary8: Linguistic justiceNormative linguistic justiceReal linguistic utopiasThe struggle for linguistic justiceReferences