Nicola Perera
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 933299 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Nicola Perera |
| PRENOMES | Nicola |
| SOBRENOME | Perera |
| ASSINATURA | PERERA N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Curtin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9933-7145 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2015 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
‘Ōlē bābālē!!!’ – Exploring emotions and digital language practices in family language policy among Bengali transnational families
Aims and objectives: This study explores the role of emotions in heritage language (HL) practice within the context of networked family language policy (nFLP) among multilingual, transnational families through digital communication using multimodal (inter)action analysis (MIA). Methodology: The study employs a case study methodological approach involving Sigrid Norris’s MIA tools to understand how emotions are expressed and shared within multimod…
Irregular and Forced Migration within Asia
This special collection of International Migration Review brings together a series of articles that collectively situate Asia at the heart of contemporary discussions of irregular and forced migration. Foregrounding the scholarship of researchers working in and from Asia, we position the collection as a deliberate decentering of Global North preoccupations with border control, instead emphasizing the diverse expressions of inequity and resistance…
You don’t think? But you can check
This paper focuses on the epistemic phrase ‘ I (don’t) think ’ when used by lay persons describing a medical emergency to call-takers triaging ambulance dispatch. Using conversation analysis, we analysed a collection of 100 cases of callers saying ‘ I think ’ or ‘ I don’t think ’ in emergency calls for cardiac arrest in Australia. Callers do not typically express uncertainty when they say ‘ I (don’t) think ’, but rather, use ‘ I (don’t) think ’ a…
Language barriers in emergency ambulance calls for cardiac arrest
In medical emergencies, phoning the ambulance service constitutes a high-stakes interaction. Call-takers rely on callers to provide information about the patient so they can promptly recognise the medical problem and take swift action to remedy it. When a language barrier exists between the call-taker and caller, this can add a further challenge, given that third-party interpreters are rarely engaged, especially for time-critical conditions such …
Understanding networked family language policy
Family language policy (FLP) impacts the maintenance of heritage language(s) in the family domain, where parents play a crucial role in making language-related decisions for their children. Globalisation, immigration, the COVID-19 pandemic, and digital communication have all affected FLP. Studies are now calling for examining how dispersed transnational families incorporate digital practices as a part of their FLP, given the shift from the exclus…
Linguistic reconciliation in contexts of conflict
This article explores how language learning is an integral component of progressing linguistic reconciliation in contexts of war and conflict. Sri Lanka is a case where ethnolinguistic division and the devaluation of Tamil as a co-official language has led to linguistic injustice for Tamil people and users of Tamil. In the post-war landscape, government commitment towards addressing this injustice, and reconciliation for that matter, has been wea…
Conversations in a Time of Crisis
Kuppi in Sinhala and Tamil refers to a small oil lamp, a vial. On university campuses in Sri Lanka, kuppi is the figurative term for a student-led informal study group led by a "smarter" or senior student. Informed by the complexities of university life, kuppi signifies a politics and pedagogy happening on the margins of the lecture hall. It parodies, subverts, and simultaneously reaffirms social hierarchies. Drawing upon this conceit, a group of…
“I’m kind of agnostic”
Transplanting non-Western religions to Western nations results in first-generation migrant attempts to transmit faith in vastly different contexts. Especially as adolescents, second-generation migrants tackle mediating their personal religious beliefs in a society with diverse religions and ideologies as well as negotiating membership of their ethnoreligious community. This paper draws from an ethnography in a Tamil Hindu temple in Australia. I p…
Talking Saivism in a Tamil migrant faith classroom
This study is located in a lesser-known educational context and investigates aspects of migration, religion and multilingualism. Focusing on the discourse of second-generation adolescent migrants in a Tamil Hindu temple school in urban Australia, I discuss how flexible language practices manifest in this migrant faith setting. I argue that the use of the heritage language is not always at the forefront, despite a monolingual Tamil language policy…
Sandhu, Priti
Tamil in the temples – Language and religious maintenance beyond the first generation
This study builds on research into the influence of religion on migrant language maintenance in Australia. In the case of Sri Lankan Tamil Hindus, previous studies have found that religious devoutness has a positive influence on the maintenance of Tamil in the home domain. In the religious domain, an ideology which links the Tamil language to the Tamil Hindu (Saiva) religion works in favour of maintaining Tamil in temple spaces in Australia. Howe…
The maintenance of Sri Lankan languages in Australia – comparing the experience of the Sinhalese and Tamils in the homeland
In the study of language maintenance and shift for migrant groups in Australia, scholars have tended to focus on how personal factors or aspects of life in the host society shape language maintenance patterns. In this study, I explore how factors originating in the homeland affect language maintenance for Sri Lankan migrants in Australia. The aim of the research is to compare the experiences of Sinhalese and Tamil migrants. Sri Lanka has suffered…
Tamil in the temples – Language and religious maintenance beyond the first generation
This study builds on research into the influence of religion on migrant language maintenance in Australia. In the case of Sri Lankan Tamil Hindus, previous studies have found that religious devoutness has a positive influence on the maintenance of Tamil in the home domain. In the religious domain, an ideology which links the Tamil language to the Tamil Hindu (Saiva) religion works in favour of maintaining Tamil in temple spaces in Australia. Howe…
The maintenance of Sri Lankan languages in Australia – comparing the experience of the Sinhalese and Tamils in the homeland
In the study of language maintenance and shift for migrant groups in Australia, scholars have tended to focus on how personal factors or aspects of life in the host society shape language maintenance patterns. In this study, I explore how factors originating in the homeland affect language maintenance for Sri Lankan migrants in Australia. The aim of the research is to compare the experiences of Sinhalese and Tamil migrants. Sri Lanka has suffered…
Understanding networked family language policy
Family language policy (FLP) impacts the maintenance of heritage language(s) in the family domain, where parents play a crucial role in making language-related decisions for their children. Globalisation, immigration, the COVID-19 pandemic, and digital communication have all affected FLP. Studies are now calling for examining how dispersed transnational families incorporate digital practices as a part of their FLP, given the shift from the exclus…
Linguistic reconciliation in contexts of conflict
This article explores how language learning is an integral component of progressing linguistic reconciliation in contexts of war and conflict. Sri Lanka is a case where ethnolinguistic division and the devaluation of Tamil as a co-official language has led to linguistic injustice for Tamil people and users of Tamil. In the post-war landscape, government commitment towards addressing this injustice, and reconciliation for that matter, has been wea…
The maintenance of Sri Lankan languages in Australia – comparing the experience of the Sinhalese and Tamils in the homeland
In the study of language maintenance and shift for migrant groups in Australia, scholars have tended to focus on how personal factors or aspects of life in the host society shape language maintenance patterns. In this study, I explore how factors originating in the homeland affect language maintenance for Sri Lankan migrants in Australia. The aim of the research is to compare the experiences of Sinhalese and Tamil migrants. Sri Lanka has suffered…
Tamil in the temples – Language and religious maintenance beyond the first generation
This study builds on research into the influence of religion on migrant language maintenance in Australia. In the case of Sri Lankan Tamil Hindus, previous studies have found that religious devoutness has a positive influence on the maintenance of Tamil in the home domain. In the religious domain, an ideology which links the Tamil language to the Tamil Hindu (Saiva) religion works in favour of maintaining Tamil in temple spaces in Australia. Howe…
Sandhu, Priti
Talking Saivism in a Tamil migrant faith classroom
This study is located in a lesser-known educational context and investigates aspects of migration, religion and multilingualism. Focusing on the discourse of second-generation adolescent migrants in a Tamil Hindu temple school in urban Australia, I discuss how flexible language practices manifest in this migrant faith setting. I argue that the use of the heritage language is not always at the forefront, despite a monolingual Tamil language policy…
“I’m kind of agnostic”
Transplanting non-Western religions to Western nations results in first-generation migrant attempts to transmit faith in vastly different contexts. Especially as adolescents, second-generation migrants tackle mediating their personal religious beliefs in a society with diverse religions and ideologies as well as negotiating membership of their ethnoreligious community. This paper draws from an ethnography in a Tamil Hindu temple in Australia. I p…
Conversations in a Time of Crisis
Kuppi in Sinhala and Tamil refers to a small oil lamp, a vial. On university campuses in Sri Lanka, kuppi is the figurative term for a student-led informal study group led by a "smarter" or senior student. Informed by the complexities of university life, kuppi signifies a politics and pedagogy happening on the margins of the lecture hall. It parodies, subverts, and simultaneously reaffirms social hierarchies. Drawing upon this conceit, a group of…
Understanding networked family language policy
Family language policy (FLP) impacts the maintenance of heritage language(s) in the family domain, where parents play a crucial role in making language-related decisions for their children. Globalisation, immigration, the COVID-19 pandemic, and digital communication have all affected FLP. Studies are now calling for examining how dispersed transnational families incorporate digital practices as a part of their FLP, given the shift from the exclus…
Linguistic reconciliation in contexts of conflict
This article explores how language learning is an integral component of progressing linguistic reconciliation in contexts of war and conflict. Sri Lanka is a case where ethnolinguistic division and the devaluation of Tamil as a co-official language has led to linguistic injustice for Tamil people and users of Tamil. In the post-war landscape, government commitment towards addressing this injustice, and reconciliation for that matter, has been wea…
You don’t think? But you can check
This paper focuses on the epistemic phrase ‘ I (don’t) think ’ when used by lay persons describing a medical emergency to call-takers triaging ambulance dispatch. Using conversation analysis, we analysed a collection of 100 cases of callers saying ‘ I think ’ or ‘ I don’t think ’ in emergency calls for cardiac arrest in Australia. Callers do not typically express uncertainty when they say ‘ I (don’t) think ’, but rather, use ‘ I (don’t) think ’ a…
Language barriers in emergency ambulance calls for cardiac arrest
In medical emergencies, phoning the ambulance service constitutes a high-stakes interaction. Call-takers rely on callers to provide information about the patient so they can promptly recognise the medical problem and take swift action to remedy it. When a language barrier exists between the call-taker and caller, this can add a further challenge, given that third-party interpreters are rarely engaged, especially for time-critical conditions such …
‘Ōlē bābālē!!!’ – Exploring emotions and digital language practices in family language policy among Bengali transnational families
Aims and objectives: This study explores the role of emotions in heritage language (HL) practice within the context of networked family language policy (nFLP) among multilingual, transnational families through digital communication using multimodal (inter)action analysis (MIA). Methodology: The study employs a case study methodological approach involving Sigrid Norris’s MIA tools to understand how emotions are expressed and shared within multimod…
Irregular and Forced Migration within Asia
This special collection of International Migration Review brings together a series of articles that collectively situate Asia at the heart of contemporary discussions of irregular and forced migration. Foregrounding the scholarship of researchers working in and from Asia, we position the collection as a deliberate decentering of Global North preoccupations with border control, instead emphasizing the diverse expressions of inequity and resistance…
Sociology (8 obras) · Multilingual Education and Policy (7 obras) · Linguistics (6 obras) · Political science (5 obras) · Psychology (5 obras) · Tamil (5 obras) · Anthropology (4 obras) · Gender Studies (4 obras) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (4 obras) · Law (4 obras)