Linguistic diversity in social life
Tweets mostly by Ingrid Piller, Distinguished Professor @macquarie_uni
Oct 7, 2021 • 19 tweets • 14 min read
Inga Clendinnen "Dancing with Strangers"
In this thread students @MQLinguistics read Clendinnen's historical #ethnography based on the diaries of the officers of the 1st fleet to learn about #InterculturalCommunication between British colonizers and Sydney's Indigenous people #DancingWithStrangers is a story of confusion and ignorance of #culture#language, aspirations, traditions and #law
One of the most tragic figures is Baneelon, an Australian kidnapped by Governor Phillip and taught English in a desperate attempt to create an intermediary.
Aug 30, 2021 • 15 tweets • 11 min read
In this thread students @MQLinguistics @Macquarie_Uni share what they've learned so far (1st quarter of semester)
In this thread 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼students @MQLinguistics@Macquarie_Uni share what they've learned so far (1st quarter of semester)
Favorite facts about #languages and #cultures in #contact
In #Arabic we say: “Footprints indicate trajectory”, but I never thought that a wheel would reveal a culture. This is how #cultures can be traced through #languages. The reading made me feel like I am solving a puzzle more than exploring languages.
Sep 28, 2020 • 14 tweets • 9 min read
💫10 secrets to #writing fabulous academic assignments ✨
#Literacy is dynamic, continually developing and unfolds in new and unexpected ways. Learning the inception of #writing and its trajectory to the forms we use now has me excited to observe how literacy continues to develop in the future
You're right but spare a thought for the #Latin#alphabet - the greatest linguistic superpower of all times
More #languages and people use the #Latin#script than all other scripts combined #Languages that use the #Latin script have official or co-official status in many countries around the world
Aug 3, 2020 • 15 tweets • 10 min read
Listen up, boys and girls, because I'm going to tell you the story of the greatest inventors of all times: the inventors of #writing
Can you imagine a world without writing? No writing on screens, no writing on paper, no writing on stone, no writing on clay tables, nothing ...
To meet the inventors of #writing, we have to travel back in time a few thousand years to the first city states, such as Uruk, in what is today southern Iraq
Their newly emerging complex urban society needed a way to keep records of things like who had paid how much tax
Jul 11, 2020 • 11 tweets • 8 min read
Did you know that Language-on-the-Move has an archive of posts related to #language and #racism?
Our #Top10 favorite posts about language and #race outside the USA, in the thread below 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
languageonthemove.com/tag/racism/
Can a universal concept of #Orientalism explain the diverse representation of non-Europeans by Europeans and the subsequent multiple forms of cultural engagement ranging from clashes to cooperation? @gegentuul
"It takes 10 minutes of sitting on the phone to get an #interpreter, and that’s valuable time when you’re inundated. So this utilitarian calculus kicks in. And the patients that are most mainstream get the best care.”