Ingrid Piller
Biographic Data
| ID | 733146 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ingrid Piller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ingrid |
| FAMILY NAME | Piller |
| SIGNATURE | PILLER I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macquarie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2181-2596 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 387 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Australia is a multilingual society & accepting multiculturalism means taking language seriously
The (un)imagined work of determining patients’ English language proficiency
Trust at the border: Identifying risk and assessing credibility on reality television
Every day, officers working at international airports investigate potential risks to state safety and security. But how do they decide who they can trust, and also ensure that the broader public trusts them to conduct this work? This article explores these questions through an examination of the reality television show Border Security: Australia's Front Line . Through critical discourse analysis of a collection of 108 televised airport encounters…
Can we escape the textocalypse? Academic publishing as community building [Language on the Move]
Rapid developments in digital technologies have fundamentally changed writing practices leading to an explosion in the number of textual products. The result is a "textocalypse" - a deep crisis in knowledge production and dissemination. Instead of pushing back, academics fuel these degenerations because their careers have become subject to the capitalist imperative to produce and consume - measured in the form of research outputs and citation met…
Marking and unmarking the (non)native speaker through English language proficiency requirements for university admission
This article examines the language ideologies undergirding university English language admission requirements. Universities are today caught between the order of the nation state and that of corporate globalization as they seek to attract both national and international students. This tension produces conflicting processes of (converse) racialization and linguistic (un)marking within which universities construct language proficiencies and ethnona…
Monolingual school websites as barriers to parent engagement
This paper investigates the communication strategies of schools to engage linguistically diverse parents through enrollment information on their websites. The importance of the study is due to the known educational disadvantage experienced by migrant children as well as the known positive influence of parental engagement on educational achievement. Against this background, we ask whether English-speaking and non-English-speaking parents have equa…
Securing the borders of English and Whiteness
This article examines how racial and linguistic identities are constructed on the Australian reality TV show Border Security. Based on an analysis of 108 episodes of the show involving 253 border force officers and 128 passengers, we explore how the hegemonic Australian identity of the White native speaker of English is constructed on the show. Officers are represented as a relatively uniform group of heroes devoted to protecting Australia’s nati…
What exactly does an editor do
This final editorial by outgoing Multilingua editor Ingrid Piller provides a glimpse behind the scenes of academic publishing. The work of a journal editor falls into five broad areas: desk-rejecting; managing peer review; evaluating and assessing research; taking affirmative action; and solving problems and setting directions. This article provides a brief overview of what is involved in each area, and includes recommendations for improvement, b…
Peripheral multilingual scholars confronting epistemic exclusion in global academic knowledge production: A positive case study
The decolonization of knowledge is increasingly high on the agenda of applied and sociolinguistics. This article contributes to this agenda by examining how peripheral multilingual scholars confront their linguistic and epistemic exclusion from global knowledge production. Based on the product of such a challenge – a Chinese-centric special issue of Multilingua , a global academic Q1 journal, devoted to crisis communication during the COVID-19 pa…
Family language policy between the bilingual advantage and the monolingual mindset
In contemporary Western societies, parenting has become the subject of a substantial body of advice and self-help literature. Within this literature, questions of bilingual parenting have begun to add yet another dimension to parental anxieties. Against this background, we examine how parents in a general Australian online parenting forum discuss the desires they have for their children's bilingualism and the challenges they experience to their b…
Language and Social Justice
Social justice is the overcoming of injustice. Linguistic injustice manifests as linguistic subordination and as the restriction of access to social goods through language. Linguistic subordination is based in the fact of linguistic diversity and means that some linguistic repertoires and their speakers are denied parity of recognition. Restriction of access to social goods such as education, employment, healthcare, or welfare works through insti…
Linguistic diversity in a time of crisis: Language challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic
Multilingual crisis communication has emerged as a global challenge during the COVID-19 pandemic. Global public health communication is characterized by the large-scale exclusion of linguistic minorities from timely high-quality information. The severe limitations of multilingual crisis communication that the COVID-19 crisis has laid bare result from the dominance of English-centric global mass communication; the longstanding devaluation of minor…
On the conditions of authority in academic publics
The discourse of some of the most powerful public figures in today's world is often incoherent and nonsensical. Incoherent yet authoritative discourse shows that authority does not rest in language but results from non-linguistic and pre-textual conditions. The non-linguistic and pre-textual conditions are exemplified in an Australian case-study of a media debate between the Immigration Minister and a refugee, drawing on research by Smith-Khan (2…
Scripts of Servitude: Language, Labor Migration and Transnational Domestic Work
Intercultural Communication: A Critical Introduction
A comprehensive and critical overview of the field of intercultural communication Combining perspectives from discourse analysis and sociolinguistics, the second edition of this popular textbook provides students with an up-to-date overview of the field of intercultural communication. Ingrid Piller explains communication in context using two main approaches. The first treats cultural identity, difference and similarity as discursive constructions…
Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice: An Introduction to Applied Sociolinguistics
Understanding and addressing linguistic disadvantage must be a central facet of the social justice agenda of our time. This book explores the ways in which linguistic diversity mediates social justice in liberal democracies undergoing rapid change due to high levels of migration and economic globalization. Focusing on the linguistic dimensions of economic inequality, cultural domination, and imparity of political participation, Linguistic Diversi…
Monolingual ways of seeing multilingualism
Tony Liddicoat shows that English-language research publications about multilingualism are by and large a monolingual affair. Only 7% of the references cited in his corpus of multilingualism resear
Language, employment, and settlement: Temporary meat workers in Australia
Australia is one of the world’s largest beef exporters. However, meat processing jobs are widely considered undesirable and are increasingly filled with employer-sponsored migrant workers on temporary long-stay visas. Against this background, our paper explores the role of language in the employment and migration trajectories of a group of meat processing workers from the Philippines in a small town in rural Australia. Methodologically, we employ…
Neoliberalism as language policy
This article explores how an economic ideology-neoliberalism-serves as a covert language policy mechanism pushing the global spread of English. Our analysis builds on a case study of the spread of English as a medium of instruction (MoI) in South Korean higher education. The Asian financial crisis of 1997/98 was the catalyst for a set of socioeconomic transformations that led to the imposition of "competitiveness" as a core value. Competition is …
Linguistic diversity and social inclusion
This introduction provides the framework for the special issue by describing the social inclusion agenda of neoliberal market democracies. While the social inclusion agenda has been widely adopted, social inclusion policies are often blind to the ways in which language proficiency and language ideologies mediate social inclusion in linguistically diverse societies. If language is written into social inclusion policies, it is often done in a top-d…
Dinosaur Publishing
The bilingual edge: Why, when, and how to teach your child a second language
The bilingual edge: why, when, and how to teach your child a second language, by Kendall King and Alison Mackey, New York, HarperCollins, 2007, x + 289 pp., US$15.9534.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-06
Intercultural communication
Michael Clyne (2005). Australia’s Language Potential
Michael Clyne (2005). Australia’s Language Potential. Sydney: UNSW Press. Pp. xii + 208. ISBN 0-86840-727-5
Linguistics and Intercultural Communication
Our times are often referred to as the 'new world order' with its 'new economy'. What this means is that capitalism has been restructured on a global scale, and people of widely different cultural and linguistic backgrounds have been thrown into contact more than ever before. Cultural and linguistic contact may occur in the flows of information and mass media, as well as in the flows of actual people in migration and tourism. Given the ubiquity o…
Neoliberalism as language policy
This article explores how an economic ideology-neoliberalism-serves as a covert language policy mechanism pushing the global spread of English. Our analysis builds on a case study of the spread of English as a medium of instruction (MoI) in South Korean higher education. The Asian financial crisis of 1997/98 was the catalyst for a set of socioeconomic transformations that led to the imposition of "competitiveness" as a core value. Competition is …
Identity constructions in multilingual advertising
Contemporary social identities are hybrid and complex, and the media play a crucial role in their construction. A shift from political identities based on citizenship to economic ones based on participation in a global consumer market can be observed, together with a concomitant shift from monolingual practices to multilingual and English-dominant ones. This transformation is here explored in a corpus of German advertisements. Multilingual advert…
Passing for a native speaker: Identity and success in second language learning
In sociolinguistic interviews for a research project on cross-cultural marriage, 27 out of 73 second language (L2) users of English and German were found to claim that they had achieved high-level proficiency in their L2 and that they were passing for native speakers in some contexts. Based on these insiders' accounts, the article provides a description of passing for a native speaker as a (frequently overlooked) form of L2 ability. The introduct…
Linguistic diversity in a time of crisis: Language challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic
Multilingual crisis communication has emerged as a global challenge during the COVID-19 pandemic. Global public health communication is characterized by the large-scale exclusion of linguistic minorities from timely high-quality information. The severe limitations of multilingual crisis communication that the COVID-19 crisis has laid bare result from the dominance of English-centric global mass communication; the longstanding devaluation of minor…
Intercultural Communication: A Critical Introduction
A comprehensive and critical overview of the field of intercultural communication Combining perspectives from discourse analysis and sociolinguistics, the second edition of this popular textbook provides students with an up-to-date overview of the field of intercultural communication. Ingrid Piller explains communication in context using two main approaches. The first treats cultural identity, difference and similarity as discursive constructions…
Monolingual ways of seeing multilingualism
Tony Liddicoat shows that English-language research publications about multilingualism are by and large a monolingual affair. Only 7% of the references cited in his corpus of multilingualism resear
Language, employment, and settlement: Temporary meat workers in Australia
Australia is one of the world’s largest beef exporters. However, meat processing jobs are widely considered undesirable and are increasingly filled with employer-sponsored migrant workers on temporary long-stay visas. Against this background, our paper explores the role of language in the employment and migration trajectories of a group of meat processing workers from the Philippines in a small town in rural Australia. Methodologically, we employ…
Private language planning: The best of both worlds
One aspect of childhood bilingualism that is frequently overlooked is the fact that, in many cases, childhood bilingualism is the result of private language planning. Particularly so-called 'elite bilinguals' (middle-class international couples, expatriates, academics who raise their children in a non-native language, etc.) make carefully considered choices when it comes to the question whether to educate their children bilingually, and how to go…
Advertising as Multilingual Communication
Peripheral multilingual scholars confronting epistemic exclusion in global academic knowledge production: A positive case study
The decolonization of knowledge is increasingly high on the agenda of applied and sociolinguistics. This article contributes to this agenda by examining how peripheral multilingual scholars confront their linguistic and epistemic exclusion from global knowledge production. Based on the product of such a challenge – a Chinese-centric special issue of Multilingua , a global academic Q1 journal, devoted to crisis communication during the COVID-19 pa…
Marking and unmarking the (non)native speaker through English language proficiency requirements for university admission
This article examines the language ideologies undergirding university English language admission requirements. Universities are today caught between the order of the nation state and that of corporate globalization as they seek to attract both national and international students. This tension produces conflicting processes of (converse) racialization and linguistic (un)marking within which universities construct language proficiencies and ethnona…
Securing the borders of English and Whiteness
This article examines how racial and linguistic identities are constructed on the Australian reality TV show Border Security. Based on an analysis of 108 episodes of the show involving 253 border force officers and 128 passengers, we explore how the hegemonic Australian identity of the White native speaker of English is constructed on the show. Officers are represented as a relatively uniform group of heroes devoted to protecting Australia’s nati…
On the conditions of authority in academic publics
The discourse of some of the most powerful public figures in today's world is often incoherent and nonsensical. Incoherent yet authoritative discourse shows that authority does not rest in language but results from non-linguistic and pre-textual conditions. The non-linguistic and pre-textual conditions are exemplified in an Australian case-study of a media debate between the Immigration Minister and a refugee, drawing on research by Smith-Khan (2…
Scripts of Servitude: Language, Labor Migration and Transnational Domestic Work
Dinosaur Publishing
Linguistics and Intercultural Communication
Our times are often referred to as the 'new world order' with its 'new economy'. What this means is that capitalism has been restructured on a global scale, and people of widely different cultural and linguistic backgrounds have been thrown into contact more than ever before. Cultural and linguistic contact may occur in the flows of information and mass media, as well as in the flows of actual people in migration and tourism. Given the ubiquity o…
What exactly does an editor do
This final editorial by outgoing Multilingua editor Ingrid Piller provides a glimpse behind the scenes of academic publishing. The work of a journal editor falls into five broad areas: desk-rejecting; managing peer review; evaluating and assessing research; taking affirmative action; and solving problems and setting directions. This article provides a brief overview of what is involved in each area, and includes recommendations for improvement, b…
Variation in Automobile Naming
The names of 1024 American automobiles are analyzed according to register variation, diachronic variation and manufacturer variation. Variation through such linguistic means as structural complexity, metonymy and iconicity is shown to not only reflect social realities of automobile producers and consumers but to actively contribute to constructing these realities as well
Trust at the border: Identifying risk and assessing credibility on reality television
Every day, officers working at international airports investigate potential risks to state safety and security. But how do they decide who they can trust, and also ensure that the broader public trusts them to conduct this work? This article explores these questions through an examination of the reality television show Border Security: Australia's Front Line . Through critical discourse analysis of a collection of 108 televised airport encounters…
Hedging in Scientific Research Articles
This book provides a comprehensive study of hedging in academic research papers, relating a systematic analysis of forms to a pragmatic explanation for their use. Based on a detailed examination of journal articles and interviews with research scientists, the study shows that the extensive use of possibility and tentativeness in research writing is intimately connected to the social and institutional practices of academic communities and is at th…
Ebenen der Textstruktur: Sprachliche und kommunikative Prinzipien
American Automobile Names
Writing and Identity: The Discoursal Construction of Identity in Academic Writing
Language Choices: Conditions, Constraints and Consequences
Interkulturelle Wirtschaftskommunikation in Europa, Deutschland-Danemark: Zur Konzeption eines interkulturellen Kommunikationstrainings fur den deutsch-danischen Handel
Hedging in Scientific Research Articles
This book provides a comprehensive study of hedging in academic research papers, relating a systematic analysis of forms to a pragmatic explanation for their use. Based on a detailed examination of journal articles and interviews with research scientists, the study shows that the extensive use of possibility and tentativeness in research writing is intimately connected to the social and institutional practices of academic communities and is at th…
Bedeutung, Gebrauch und sprachliche Handlung: Ansaetze und Probleme einer handlungstheoretischen Semantik aus linguistischer Sicht
Variation in Automobile Naming
The names of 1024 American automobiles are analyzed according to register variation, diachronic variation and manufacturer variation. Variation through such linguistic means as structural complexity, metonymy and iconicity is shown to not only reflect social realities of automobile producers and consumers but to actively contribute to constructing these realities as well
Non-Native Educators in English Language Teaching
English for Sale: A Study of the Language of Advertising
Naturalization language testing and its basis in ideologies of national identity and citizenship
National belonging is a central facet of modern social identities. In Europe, nation-building often went hand in hand with linguistic nationalism. While the monarchial empires that preceded the modern nation had been multilingual polities (e.g., the Habsburg Empire), nations were founded on the ideology of “One Language, One Nation.” Nations are not only “Imagined Communities,” that is, systems of cultural representation whereby people come to im…
Private language planning: The best of both worlds
One aspect of childhood bilingualism that is frequently overlooked is the fact that, in many cases, childhood bilingualism is the result of private language planning. Particularly so-called 'elite bilinguals' (middle-class international couples, expatriates, academics who raise their children in a non-native language, etc.) make carefully considered choices when it comes to the question whether to educate their children bilingually, and how to go…
Identity constructions in multilingual advertising
Contemporary social identities are hybrid and complex, and the media play a crucial role in their construction. A shift from political identities based on citizenship to economic ones based on participation in a global consumer market can be observed, together with a concomitant shift from monolingual practices to multilingual and English-dominant ones. This transformation is here explored in a corpus of German advertisements. Multilingual advert…
Bilingual Couples Talk: The discursive construction of hybridity
This sociolinguistic study of the linguistic practices of bilingual couples describes the conditions, processes and results of private language contact. It is based on a unique corpus of more than 20 hours of private conversations between partners in bilingual marriages. Adding to its breadth of coverage, these private conversations are supplemented with larger public discourses about international couplehood. The volume thus offers a corpus-driv…
Passing for a native speaker: Identity and success in second language learning
In sociolinguistic interviews for a research project on cross-cultural marriage, 27 out of 73 second language (L2) users of English and German were found to claim that they had achieved high-level proficiency in their L2 and that they were passing for native speakers in some contexts. Based on these insiders' accounts, the article provides a description of passing for a native speaker as a (frequently overlooked) form of L2 ability. The introduct…
Historical Perspectives on Immigrant and Bilingual Education in the USA
Language Strategies for Bilingual Families: The One-parent-one-language Approach. Suzanne Barron-Hauwaert. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 2004. Pp. xv+220. ISBN 1-85359-714-7
Living with Multiple Languages: Multilingualism, Identity, and Belonging
Citizenship and Language Learning: International Perspectives. Audrey Osler, Starkey (eds) Hugh. Stoke on Trent: Trentham Books in Partnership with the British Council. 2005. Pp. xvi+147. ISBN 1-85856-334-8: £18.99
Advertising as Multilingual Communication
Michael Clyne (2005). Australia’s Language Potential
Michael Clyne (2005). Australia’s Language Potential. Sydney: UNSW Press. Pp. xii + 208. ISBN 0-86840-727-5
Linguistics and Intercultural Communication
Our times are often referred to as the 'new world order' with its 'new economy'. What this means is that capitalism has been restructured on a global scale, and people of widely different cultural and linguistic backgrounds have been thrown into contact more than ever before. Cultural and linguistic contact may occur in the flows of information and mass media, as well as in the flows of actual people in migration and tourism. Given the ubiquity o…
Intercultural communication
The bilingual edge: Why, when, and how to teach your child a second language
The bilingual edge: why, when, and how to teach your child a second language, by Kendall King and Alison Mackey, New York, HarperCollins, 2007, x + 289 pp., US$15.9534.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-06
Linguistic diversity and social inclusion
This introduction provides the framework for the special issue by describing the social inclusion agenda of neoliberal market democracies. While the social inclusion agenda has been widely adopted, social inclusion policies are often blind to the ways in which language proficiency and language ideologies mediate social inclusion in linguistically diverse societies. If language is written into social inclusion policies, it is often done in a top-d…
Dinosaur Publishing
Neoliberalism as language policy
This article explores how an economic ideology-neoliberalism-serves as a covert language policy mechanism pushing the global spread of English. Our analysis builds on a case study of the spread of English as a medium of instruction (MoI) in South Korean higher education. The Asian financial crisis of 1997/98 was the catalyst for a set of socioeconomic transformations that led to the imposition of "competitiveness" as a core value. Competition is …
Linguistics (27 works) · Sociology (26 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (25 works) · Political science (22 works) · Law (15 works) · Philosophy (15 works) · Computer Science (13 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (10 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (8 works)