Shopping while bilingual can make you sick

Ingrid Piller

Shopping while bilingual can make you sick

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Abstract

I’ve just found an e-mail from Apple in my spam folder with a ‘personal’ invitation to attend one of their new store openings in Sydney. I’m not going for two reasons: first, Apple has not yet done anything to improve working conditions in their Chinese supplier factories. I keep checking up on Apple’s progress towards improving working conditions at ethicaliphone.org and might consider their invitation once I see some progress there. The second reason I’m not going is that one of my family languages is Persian and I have no desire of entering potentially discriminatory situations if I can avoid it.

Original language	English
Specialist publication	Language on the move
Publisher	Language on the move
Publication status	Published - 27 Jun 2012

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

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Shopping while bilingual can make you sick

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