I drove down to New York City with four friends last weekend to bike the 5 Boro Bike Tour. When we crossed into the United States, the border official asked us where we were all from. Without hesitation we unanimously replied “Montreal”, but our origins are a bit more disparate than that. Packed tightly into my little blue sedan were: a West-Coast Canadian, a Franco-Ontarian, an Ohioan with a mixed-up-anything-but-Midwest accent, a Spaniard, and me, an Australian.
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Author: Michaela Salmon
BILDing networks at the EGSS Conference 2015 (by Michaela Salmon)
The last week and a half have been an exciting time for us; we presented ourselves publically as a group at McGill’s Education Graduate Students’ Society (EGSS) annual conference, as well as hosting and developing a workshop that explored exciting new research methodologies, particularly those applicable to sociolinguistics (see tweet below).
Field Notes: Language (mis)communication (by Michaela Salmon)
A few weeks ago, Casey wrote about her transition into the field and beginning research in Hong Kong. Closer to home, in Montreal, I have also begun this somewhat frightening but nonetheless exhilarating phase of my research: data collection.
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Dog Park Language Policy, or: how speaking French with my dog made me a real Montréalaise. (by Michaela Salmon)
Family language policies are usually all about parents wanting to pass their multiple languages onto their children. My family language policy was imposed on me by my dog. Continue reading