Linguistic discrimination at work

Ingrid Piller

Linguistic discrimination at work

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Abstract

Deborah Cameron noted in 1995 that “linguistic bigotry is among the last publicly expressible prejudices left to members of the Western intelligentsia.” In the same vein, one could point out that linguistic discrimination is among the last legal forms of discrimination left to Western employers. A German court recently ruled that an employer’s repeated criticisms of an employee’s German proficiency does not constitute a form of discrimination.

Original language	English
Specialist publication	Language on the move
Publisher	Language on the move
Publication status	Published - 22 Jan 2010

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200401 applied linguistics and educational linguistics
200405 language in culture and society (sociolinguistics)

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Linguistic discrimination at work

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