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Tag Archives: Language at work
Patriots and traitors
Much of my work in recent years around language learning and migrant settlement has questioned the straightforward link between language learning and settlement success. Policy makers as well as migrants themselves assume that a key factor that keeps migrants out … Continue reading
Posted in Language, migration & social justice
Tagged Australia, interpreting, Iraq, language at war, Language at work, Migration, translation
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Do you speak Swiss?
A most amazing book has just landed on my desk: Do you speak Swiss, edited by Walter Haas, is the final report on a Swiss National Research Project devoted to Linguistic Diversity and Language Competence in Switzerland. Initiated by the … Continue reading
Posted in Language & globalization, Language & tourism, Language learning, gender & identity, Language, migration & social justice
Tagged English, English as a Global Language, French, German, Italian, Language & tourism, Language at work, language ideologies, language learning, language policy, Romansh, Social inclusion, Switzerland
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Working women on the move
The International Gender and Language Association conference at Tsuda College, Tokyo, kicked off yesterday with a panel about Working Women on the Move organized by Kimie Takahashi. The three papers on the panel explored the intersections between gender, language and … Continue reading
Posted in Language, migration & social justice
Tagged Australia, gender, globalization, Language at work, Migration
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Racism without racists
In the past couple of years, I have been a passenger in Sydney taxis driven, inter alia, by an agricultural engineer from India, a civil engineer from Somalia, a surgeon from Vietnam, an MBA graduate from Pakistan, an architect from … Continue reading
Posted in Language, migration & social justice
Tagged accent, Africa, Australia, Canada, Discrimination, gender, Language at work, Migration, racism, refugees
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Language and inflation
Some Language-on-the-Movers based here in Sydney had the opportunity to attend Professor Masaki Oda’s lecture about the current state of the English language in Japan yesterday. With major Japanese companies announcing a switch to English as their official company language … Continue reading
