This blog is part of the sociolinguistics portal www.languageonthemove.org created by Ingrid Piller and Kimie Takahashi. Visit www.languageonthemove.org to find out more about our work.
Language learning, multilingualism, intercultural communication
This blog is part of the sociolinguistics portal www.languageonthemove.org created by Ingrid Piller and Kimie Takahashi. Visit www.languageonthemove.org to find out more about our work.
October 5, 2009 at 20:46
Lovely. Since you seem to blog about peer-reviewed research, you may be interested in
http://researchblogging.org/. It’s an easy way to syndicate your posts. Plus, sociolinguistics is seriously underrepresented! I’ll plug your website on my blog asap.
All the best,
Tom
October 5, 2009 at 20:47
Thanks to Ingrid and Kimie for this great initiative. I wish it all success. I really like Ingrid’s suggested topic for a PhD: “Not learning to speak another language: an ethnographic study of Western expatriates”…there’s probably work to be done in Japan about that topic too, especially amongst TOEFLers residing in Japan and even those exchange students who socialise almost exclusively with same language groups. To change the topic, I am interested in a question posted on sys-func or sys-fling in 2007 about how norms are realized in language and as the writer suggested not just through modality. Any views about this?