Tag Archives: names

Behind a name Behind a name

Posted on May 2, 2011 by Grace Chu-Lin Chang

One’s name is one of the most salient features for one’s identity. Some parents suffer from extraordinary indecisiveness when giving their newborn a wonderfully auspicious and proper name, all with utmost good intentions and expectations. English language learners often have … Continue reading →

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December 2010 A gulf by any other name

Posted on December 20, 2010 by Ingrid Piller

In the year in which I’ve been away from the UAE, the fervor for the use of “Arabian Gulf” instead of “Persian Gulf” has certainly heated up here. This map showing the travels of Ibn Battuta in Dubai’s Ibn Battuta … Continue reading →

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Shibboleth: Kyrgyz or Uzbek?

Posted on June 15, 2010 by Ingrid Piller

In his recent post “Accent and History,” Khan asked whether it’s possible to escape the prison of our accent and our language. Looking at the civil war and humanitarian disaster that is currently raging in and around the city of … Continue reading →

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Names on the move: Ghanaian names in the Diaspora

Posted on April 16, 2010 by Vera Williams Tetteh

I am one of Ingrid and Kimie’s PhD students. My research deals with second language learning and African resettlement in Australia. For my first guest blog, I would like to reflect on family formation and community building in the Diaspora. … Continue reading →

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When your English is too good

Posted on November 19, 2009 by Ingrid Piller

Some people just can’t win it seems. Second language speakers are in that category. I can’t even begin to count how many people who have read a fraction of the English literature I have read and who have never written … Continue reading →

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