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Date: 14-Jan-2025
From: Rachel Havard [Rachel.HAVARD at oup.com]
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Title: Life in a New Language
Publication Year: 2024

Publisher: Oxford University Press
           http://www.oup.com/us
Book URL:
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/life-in-a-new-language-9780190084295?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=linguistics

Author(s): Ingrid Piller, Donna Butorac, Emily Farrell, Loy Lising,
Shiva Mo

Hardback: ISBN: 9780190084288 Pages: 216 Price: U.S. $ 99.00

Abstract:

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.

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition
                     Phonetics
                     Phonology
                     Sociolinguistics




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