Life in a New Language

著者名：Piller, Ingrid/Butorac, Donna/Farrell, Emily/Lising, Loy/Motaghi-Tabari, Shiva/Williams Tetteh, Vera

Oxford University Press（2024/07/16発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9780190084295
• eISBN：9780190084318

Description

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.

Table of Contents

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