Chloé Diskin‐holdaway
Biographic Data
| ID | 82143 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chloé Diskin‐holdaway |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chloé |
| FAMILY NAME | Diskin‐holdaway |
| SIGNATURE | HOLDAWAY C D |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9196-1744 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Parental Language Attitudes Towards Their Children’s Accent: Findings from a Nationwide Survey in Australia
Little is known about parents’ attitudes towards their children’s accent and the role they play in transmitting an accent (and attitudes about accents) to their children. Even less is known about how these perceptions and attitudes emerge and are transmitted in multilingual families. We draw on an online survey of parental language attitudes in Australia (n = 267), where 45% of respondents were born overseas, and 61% reported speaking a language …
Do Australians hear ethnicity
Changes in migration alter the linguistic ecology of countries, giving rise to hybrid social identities and ethnically marked ways of speaking (‘ethnolects’). Studies of Australian English ethnolects focus on linguistic production, but we do not know whether Australians can identify ethnicity based on speech, the social and personal characteristics they attribute to ways of speaking, and what linguistic features they pick up on. We used stimuli e…
How Effective Are the Different Family Policies for Heritage Language Maintenance and Transmission in Australia
The one-parent-one-language (OPOL) approach has traditionally been considered a widely recommended strategy for heritage-language (HL) maintenance in bilingual families. However, alternative strategies, such as both parents consistently speaking the HL, may be equally or more effective. This study examines families’ self-reported language policies and their perceived effectiveness in HL maintenance in Australia, where minority languages often hol…
Yeah, but how? Operationalizing the functions of the discourse-pragmatic marker yeah
Discourse-pragmatic markers (DPMs) such as yeah are known for their multifunctionality, leading to challenges in coding for function in quantitative analyses. We provide an account of the incremental creation of a functional taxonomy for the DPM yeah using a decision tree and multilevel inter-rater reliability testing. Author 1 and rater 1 initially achieved a low agreement rate of 51 %, but upon consultation and adaptation of the taxonomy, came …
Enhancing heritage and additional language learning in the preschool years: Longitudinal implementation of the Little Multilingual Minds program
Little Multilingual Minds (LMM) partners with universities, communities, and early childhood centers to offer a language exposure program for heritage language (HL) and additional language (AL) speakers in a naturalistic, play-based environment. This paper reports on two program implementations conducted in a Spanish-English bilingual preschool in Sydney, Australia. Implementation 1 focused on HL Spanish children ( n = 11; Mage = 4.24) for HL mai…
I’m sad that we’re forced to speak impeccable English ”: A survey on language ideologies among Singaporeans
Variation in the Amplifier System Among Chinese L2 English Speakers in Australia
This study investigates the English adjective amplifier system of eleven Mandarin Chinese L2 speakers of English residing in Australia compared to a sample of ten native Australian English (AusE) speakers from the AusTalk corpus. Employing a variationist framework, we find that the L2 speakers employ a markedly overall higher rate (50.2%) of use of adjective amplifiers than AusE speakers (34.8%). This has been shown to be a common phenomenon amon…
Bear in a Window: Collecting Australian children’s stories of the Covid-19 pandemic
The Bear in a Window project captures Australian children’s experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic. We focused on children’s experiences of lockdown, or extended periods of home confinement, ranging from one to 100 days at a time between 2020 and 2021. Using the online experimental platform, Gorilla, we invited children aged 3–12 to record themselves telling stories about the positives and negatives of life in lockdown to our mascot, Covey Bear. Re…
Language Attitudes in Australia: Results from a Nationwide Survey
Recent research on attitudes to Australian English (AusE) shows that there is a general increase in its acceptance, legitimacy, and endonormativity. However, a certain "cultural cringe" exists, particularly when "broad" AusE is seen as representative of the variety. A significant gap in the literature is how the perceptions and usage of AusE may change as the population becomes more diverse. This paper presents findings of an online survey of lan…
Destabilizing Racial Discourses in Casual Talk-in-interaction
Racialized descriptions are a constant practice in our societies and a fundamental aspect of racial discourses. This paper uses conversation analytic tools within a Foucauldian perspective on discourse to investigate how discourses of race are (re)produced, and consequently navigated, in talk-in-interaction among speakers of Chinese. Four instances of racialized person description, taken from a larger corpus of 16 hours of casual conversation amo…
Vi snakker sådan: An analysis of the Danish discourse-pragmatic marker sådan
The last three decades have witnessed increasing interest in discourse-pragmatic markers (DPMs), both with regards to their high frequency in spoken discourse and their multifunctionality in interaction. Most studies have centered on English, with studies on Danish restricted to a handful of previous interactional discourse analyses. This paper is a preliminary investigation of the Danish word sådan (commonly glossed as ‘such’ or ‘like this/that’…
Attitudes towards Indian English among young urban professionals in Hyderabad, India
Despite extensive work on the description of Indian English(es), only limited attention has been paid to attitudes towards the variety among its speakers. This paper reports on semi‐structured interviews eliciting language attitudes with 32 educated young students and professionals in Hyderabad, India. Results reveal that Indian English is occupying an increasingly legitimate position within the popular consciousness, and that there is an increas…
Bear in a Window: Australian children's perspectives on lockdown and experiences of the Covid ‐19 pandemic
This paper examines the reflections of a cohort of Australian children who lived through the 2020–21 COVID‐19 pandemic and experienced being in ‘lockdown’; a state of largely being confined to the home for long periods daily. We report how children reflect on their experiences and illustrate how reflections draw on similar topics focused on localised child concerns regarding health, education, family, digital engagement, mealtimes and food. Furth…
Needs and demands for heritage language support in Australia: Results from a nationwide survey
This paper reports on a survey conducted in Australia among parents raising their children with a heritage language (HL). We found strong awareness of the importance of HL maintenance (95%), but only moderate levels of engagement (37–44%) with community initiatives for HL support. There were significantly more primary school-aged children reported as enrolled in community language schools than pre-school aged children, but attendance at informal …
Claire Kramsch: Language as Symbolic Power
In 2020 amidst the COVID-19 crisis, and in the final year of Donald Trump’s tumultuous Presidency, a group of Australian applied linguists met weekly via Zoom to discuss Claire Kramsch’s latest book, Language as Symbolic Power. As linguistics and language educators, we were a close fit for the book’s intended audience. Our weekly interactions, our unresolved questions, our resistances were distilled in a weekly e-mail to the author, provoking gen…
The Acquisition of Quotatives and Quotative Be Like among Chinese L2 Speakers of English in Australia
This study explores the acquisition of the English quotative system and the innovative quotative variant be like among Chinese L2 speakers of English residing in Melbourne, Australia. The L2 speakers' use of quotatives such as say, go, be like, and quotative zero is compared with quotatives used by native speakers of Australian English (AusE) in Perth and Sydney, as well as with a group of Polish L2 speakers in Ireland. A quantitative analysis of…
Willingness to Communicate and Second Language Fluency: Korean-Speaking Short-Term Sojourners in Australia
The current mixed-method study investigated two groups of Korean-speaking short-term sojourners in Australia. One group (students) was composed of learners enrolled in English training programs, whereas the other group (workers) was of learners in the workplace. We administered questionnaires and a semi-structured interview to examine their willingness to communicate (WTC) in English as their second language (L2) and explored the relationship bet…
Attitudes to English in contemporary Malaysia
This article examines the attitudes that Malaysians of different backgrounds hold towards the English language in Malaysia, as well as how they perceive ‘Standard Malaysian English’ and ‘Colloquial Malaysian English’, in terms of status and solidarity. The study administered an online questionnaire, which included an embedded matched‐guise experiment, to 77 Malaysian respondents in Malaysia and Australia. Findings indicated a range of divergent a…
You know and like among migrants in Ireland and Australia
This study investigates the use and adoption of the discourse-pragmatic markers you know and like among L2 speakers of the Expanding Circle (Poland and China) who move to Inner Circle countries (Ireland and Australia) as migrants. Adopting a quantitative analysis, findings show that rates of use of you know are commensurate between both L1 (Inner Circle) groups, despite speaking different varieties of English. No significant differences in the ra…
New insights into /el/-/æl/ merging in Australian English
A merger exists in Australian English in which /el/ is realized as [æl] for a number of speakers, particularly in Victoria. There have also been some observations of /æl/ raising to [el], termed “transposition”. Although thought to be characteristic of older speakers, empirical evidence for transposition is scant. Here we report the discovery of substantive degrees of merging in thirteen older speakers, aged between 51 and 80, from Ocean Grove, V…
New Speakers in the Irish Context: Heritage Language Maintenance Among Multilingual Migrants in Dublin, Ireland
A migrant ‘boom’ in Ireland in the 2000s led to a 143% increase in non-Irish nationals, marking a shift from the country’s predominantly monocultural past, to a future that is multicultural and, by extension, multilingual. This report focuses on the Polish and Chinese communities in Dublin, Ireland, investigating individuals’ and families’ attitudes towards heritage language maintenance and transmission, and the strategies and practices they empl…
‘Northmen, Southmen, comrades all’? The adoption of discourse like by migrants north and south of the Irish border
The Republic of Ireland (ROI) and Northern Ireland (NI) have recently become attractive migrant destinations. Two main dialectal varieties are recognised on the island, but little is known about their adoption by new speakers. Focusing on a panlectal feature, discourse like , we conducted a quantitative sociolinguistic investigation of its adoption by seventeen young Polish and Lithuanian migrants in Armagh (NI), and thirty-six Polish and Chinese…
Going global and sounding local: Quotative variation and change in L1 and L2 speakers of Irish (Dublin) English
We chart the incursion of quotative be like into Dublin English, drawing comparisons with similar developments in urban Canadian English as well as with diachronic benchmarks representing vernacular Irish English. Quantitative analysis reveals that be like is the lead variant in the quotative system used by young Dubliners and is advancing along a similar, though not identical, cline of grammaticalization to that found in urban Canadian English. …
The use of the discourse-pragmatic marker 'like' by native and non-native speakers of English in Ireland
The attitudes of recently-arrived Polish migrants to Irish English
This article presents a case study of six Polish migrants residing in Dublin, Ireland and examines their language ideologies through an analysis of the metalinguistic discourse surrounding Irish English, world Englishes, and notions of 'standardness' that arose in the course of six extended interviews in 2012. Adapting Bucholtz and Hall's concept of markedness or 'hierarchical structuring of difference', this study structures the migrants' views …
The use of the discourse-pragmatic marker 'like' by native and non-native speakers of English in Ireland
Needs and demands for heritage language support in Australia: Results from a nationwide survey
This paper reports on a survey conducted in Australia among parents raising their children with a heritage language (HL). We found strong awareness of the importance of HL maintenance (95%), but only moderate levels of engagement (37–44%) with community initiatives for HL support. There were significantly more primary school-aged children reported as enrolled in community language schools than pre-school aged children, but attendance at informal …
Going global and sounding local: Quotative variation and change in L1 and L2 speakers of Irish (Dublin) English
We chart the incursion of quotative be like into Dublin English, drawing comparisons with similar developments in urban Canadian English as well as with diachronic benchmarks representing vernacular Irish English. Quantitative analysis reveals that be like is the lead variant in the quotative system used by young Dubliners and is advancing along a similar, though not identical, cline of grammaticalization to that found in urban Canadian English. …
The attitudes of recently-arrived Polish migrants to Irish English
This article presents a case study of six Polish migrants residing in Dublin, Ireland and examines their language ideologies through an analysis of the metalinguistic discourse surrounding Irish English, world Englishes, and notions of 'standardness' that arose in the course of six extended interviews in 2012. Adapting Bucholtz and Hall's concept of markedness or 'hierarchical structuring of difference', this study structures the migrants' views …
Language Attitudes in Australia: Results from a Nationwide Survey
Recent research on attitudes to Australian English (AusE) shows that there is a general increase in its acceptance, legitimacy, and endonormativity. However, a certain "cultural cringe" exists, particularly when "broad" AusE is seen as representative of the variety. A significant gap in the literature is how the perceptions and usage of AusE may change as the population becomes more diverse. This paper presents findings of an online survey of lan…
Willingness to Communicate and Second Language Fluency: Korean-Speaking Short-Term Sojourners in Australia
The current mixed-method study investigated two groups of Korean-speaking short-term sojourners in Australia. One group (students) was composed of learners enrolled in English training programs, whereas the other group (workers) was of learners in the workplace. We administered questionnaires and a semi-structured interview to examine their willingness to communicate (WTC) in English as their second language (L2) and explored the relationship bet…
The Acquisition of Quotatives and Quotative Be Like among Chinese L2 Speakers of English in Australia
This study explores the acquisition of the English quotative system and the innovative quotative variant be like among Chinese L2 speakers of English residing in Melbourne, Australia. The L2 speakers' use of quotatives such as say, go, be like, and quotative zero is compared with quotatives used by native speakers of Australian English (AusE) in Perth and Sydney, as well as with a group of Polish L2 speakers in Ireland. A quantitative analysis of…
New insights into /el/-/æl/ merging in Australian English
A merger exists in Australian English in which /el/ is realized as [æl] for a number of speakers, particularly in Victoria. There have also been some observations of /æl/ raising to [el], termed “transposition”. Although thought to be characteristic of older speakers, empirical evidence for transposition is scant. Here we report the discovery of substantive degrees of merging in thirteen older speakers, aged between 51 and 80, from Ocean Grove, V…
The use of the discourse-pragmatic marker 'like' by native and non-native speakers of English in Ireland
The attitudes of recently-arrived Polish migrants to Irish English
This article presents a case study of six Polish migrants residing in Dublin, Ireland and examines their language ideologies through an analysis of the metalinguistic discourse surrounding Irish English, world Englishes, and notions of 'standardness' that arose in the course of six extended interviews in 2012. Adapting Bucholtz and Hall's concept of markedness or 'hierarchical structuring of difference', this study structures the migrants' views …
Going global and sounding local: Quotative variation and change in L1 and L2 speakers of Irish (Dublin) English
We chart the incursion of quotative be like into Dublin English, drawing comparisons with similar developments in urban Canadian English as well as with diachronic benchmarks representing vernacular Irish English. Quantitative analysis reveals that be like is the lead variant in the quotative system used by young Dubliners and is advancing along a similar, though not identical, cline of grammaticalization to that found in urban Canadian English. …
New Speakers in the Irish Context: Heritage Language Maintenance Among Multilingual Migrants in Dublin, Ireland
A migrant ‘boom’ in Ireland in the 2000s led to a 143% increase in non-Irish nationals, marking a shift from the country’s predominantly monocultural past, to a future that is multicultural and, by extension, multilingual. This report focuses on the Polish and Chinese communities in Dublin, Ireland, investigating individuals’ and families’ attitudes towards heritage language maintenance and transmission, and the strategies and practices they empl…
‘Northmen, Southmen, comrades all’? The adoption of discourse like by migrants north and south of the Irish border
The Republic of Ireland (ROI) and Northern Ireland (NI) have recently become attractive migrant destinations. Two main dialectal varieties are recognised on the island, but little is known about their adoption by new speakers. Focusing on a panlectal feature, discourse like , we conducted a quantitative sociolinguistic investigation of its adoption by seventeen young Polish and Lithuanian migrants in Armagh (NI), and thirty-six Polish and Chinese…
Attitudes to English in contemporary Malaysia
This article examines the attitudes that Malaysians of different backgrounds hold towards the English language in Malaysia, as well as how they perceive ‘Standard Malaysian English’ and ‘Colloquial Malaysian English’, in terms of status and solidarity. The study administered an online questionnaire, which included an embedded matched‐guise experiment, to 77 Malaysian respondents in Malaysia and Australia. Findings indicated a range of divergent a…
You know and like among migrants in Ireland and Australia
This study investigates the use and adoption of the discourse-pragmatic markers you know and like among L2 speakers of the Expanding Circle (Poland and China) who move to Inner Circle countries (Ireland and Australia) as migrants. Adopting a quantitative analysis, findings show that rates of use of you know are commensurate between both L1 (Inner Circle) groups, despite speaking different varieties of English. No significant differences in the ra…
New insights into /el/-/æl/ merging in Australian English
A merger exists in Australian English in which /el/ is realized as [æl] for a number of speakers, particularly in Victoria. There have also been some observations of /æl/ raising to [el], termed “transposition”. Although thought to be characteristic of older speakers, empirical evidence for transposition is scant. Here we report the discovery of substantive degrees of merging in thirteen older speakers, aged between 51 and 80, from Ocean Grove, V…
Claire Kramsch: Language as Symbolic Power
In 2020 amidst the COVID-19 crisis, and in the final year of Donald Trump’s tumultuous Presidency, a group of Australian applied linguists met weekly via Zoom to discuss Claire Kramsch’s latest book, Language as Symbolic Power. As linguistics and language educators, we were a close fit for the book’s intended audience. Our weekly interactions, our unresolved questions, our resistances were distilled in a weekly e-mail to the author, provoking gen…
The Acquisition of Quotatives and Quotative Be Like among Chinese L2 Speakers of English in Australia
This study explores the acquisition of the English quotative system and the innovative quotative variant be like among Chinese L2 speakers of English residing in Melbourne, Australia. The L2 speakers' use of quotatives such as say, go, be like, and quotative zero is compared with quotatives used by native speakers of Australian English (AusE) in Perth and Sydney, as well as with a group of Polish L2 speakers in Ireland. A quantitative analysis of…
Willingness to Communicate and Second Language Fluency: Korean-Speaking Short-Term Sojourners in Australia
The current mixed-method study investigated two groups of Korean-speaking short-term sojourners in Australia. One group (students) was composed of learners enrolled in English training programs, whereas the other group (workers) was of learners in the workplace. We administered questionnaires and a semi-structured interview to examine their willingness to communicate (WTC) in English as their second language (L2) and explored the relationship bet…
Destabilizing Racial Discourses in Casual Talk-in-interaction
Racialized descriptions are a constant practice in our societies and a fundamental aspect of racial discourses. This paper uses conversation analytic tools within a Foucauldian perspective on discourse to investigate how discourses of race are (re)produced, and consequently navigated, in talk-in-interaction among speakers of Chinese. Four instances of racialized person description, taken from a larger corpus of 16 hours of casual conversation amo…
Vi snakker sådan: An analysis of the Danish discourse-pragmatic marker sådan
The last three decades have witnessed increasing interest in discourse-pragmatic markers (DPMs), both with regards to their high frequency in spoken discourse and their multifunctionality in interaction. Most studies have centered on English, with studies on Danish restricted to a handful of previous interactional discourse analyses. This paper is a preliminary investigation of the Danish word sådan (commonly glossed as ‘such’ or ‘like this/that’…
Attitudes towards Indian English among young urban professionals in Hyderabad, India
Despite extensive work on the description of Indian English(es), only limited attention has been paid to attitudes towards the variety among its speakers. This paper reports on semi‐structured interviews eliciting language attitudes with 32 educated young students and professionals in Hyderabad, India. Results reveal that Indian English is occupying an increasingly legitimate position within the popular consciousness, and that there is an increas…
Bear in a Window: Australian children's perspectives on lockdown and experiences of the Covid ‐19 pandemic
This paper examines the reflections of a cohort of Australian children who lived through the 2020–21 COVID‐19 pandemic and experienced being in ‘lockdown’; a state of largely being confined to the home for long periods daily. We report how children reflect on their experiences and illustrate how reflections draw on similar topics focused on localised child concerns regarding health, education, family, digital engagement, mealtimes and food. Furth…
Needs and demands for heritage language support in Australia: Results from a nationwide survey
This paper reports on a survey conducted in Australia among parents raising their children with a heritage language (HL). We found strong awareness of the importance of HL maintenance (95%), but only moderate levels of engagement (37–44%) with community initiatives for HL support. There were significantly more primary school-aged children reported as enrolled in community language schools than pre-school aged children, but attendance at informal …
Bear in a Window: Collecting Australian children’s stories of the Covid-19 pandemic
The Bear in a Window project captures Australian children’s experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic. We focused on children’s experiences of lockdown, or extended periods of home confinement, ranging from one to 100 days at a time between 2020 and 2021. Using the online experimental platform, Gorilla, we invited children aged 3–12 to record themselves telling stories about the positives and negatives of life in lockdown to our mascot, Covey Bear. Re…
Language Attitudes in Australia: Results from a Nationwide Survey
Recent research on attitudes to Australian English (AusE) shows that there is a general increase in its acceptance, legitimacy, and endonormativity. However, a certain "cultural cringe" exists, particularly when "broad" AusE is seen as representative of the variety. A significant gap in the literature is how the perceptions and usage of AusE may change as the population becomes more diverse. This paper presents findings of an online survey of lan…
How Effective Are the Different Family Policies for Heritage Language Maintenance and Transmission in Australia
The one-parent-one-language (OPOL) approach has traditionally been considered a widely recommended strategy for heritage-language (HL) maintenance in bilingual families. However, alternative strategies, such as both parents consistently speaking the HL, may be equally or more effective. This study examines families’ self-reported language policies and their perceived effectiveness in HL maintenance in Australia, where minority languages often hol…
Yeah, but how? Operationalizing the functions of the discourse-pragmatic marker yeah
Discourse-pragmatic markers (DPMs) such as yeah are known for their multifunctionality, leading to challenges in coding for function in quantitative analyses. We provide an account of the incremental creation of a functional taxonomy for the DPM yeah using a decision tree and multilevel inter-rater reliability testing. Author 1 and rater 1 initially achieved a low agreement rate of 51 %, but upon consultation and adaptation of the taxonomy, came …
Enhancing heritage and additional language learning in the preschool years: Longitudinal implementation of the Little Multilingual Minds program
Little Multilingual Minds (LMM) partners with universities, communities, and early childhood centers to offer a language exposure program for heritage language (HL) and additional language (AL) speakers in a naturalistic, play-based environment. This paper reports on two program implementations conducted in a Spanish-English bilingual preschool in Sydney, Australia. Implementation 1 focused on HL Spanish children ( n = 11; Mage = 4.24) for HL mai…
I’m sad that we’re forced to speak impeccable English ”: A survey on language ideologies among Singaporeans
Variation in the Amplifier System Among Chinese L2 English Speakers in Australia
This study investigates the English adjective amplifier system of eleven Mandarin Chinese L2 speakers of English residing in Australia compared to a sample of ten native Australian English (AusE) speakers from the AusTalk corpus. Employing a variationist framework, we find that the L2 speakers employ a markedly overall higher rate (50.2%) of use of adjective amplifiers than AusE speakers (34.8%). This has been shown to be a common phenomenon amon…
Parental Language Attitudes Towards Their Children’s Accent: Findings from a Nationwide Survey in Australia
Little is known about parents’ attitudes towards their children’s accent and the role they play in transmitting an accent (and attitudes about accents) to their children. Even less is known about how these perceptions and attitudes emerge and are transmitted in multilingual families. We draw on an online survey of parental language attitudes in Australia (n = 267), where 45% of respondents were born overseas, and 61% reported speaking a language …
Do Australians hear ethnicity
Changes in migration alter the linguistic ecology of countries, giving rise to hybrid social identities and ethnically marked ways of speaking (‘ethnolects’). Studies of Australian English ethnolects focus on linguistic production, but we do not know whether Australians can identify ethnicity based on speech, the social and personal characteristics they attribute to ways of speaking, and what linguistic features they pick up on. We used stimuli e…
Linguistics (17 works) · Psychology (17 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (16 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (11 works) · Political science (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works)