Ingrid Piller | |
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Born | 1967 (age 56–57) |
Known for | Linguistic diversity and social participation |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Applied Linguistics Intercultural communication Sociolinguistics |
Institutions | Macquarie University |
Website | www |
Ingrid Piller (born in Germany in 1967)[1][2] is an Australian linguist, who specializes in intercultural communication, language learning, multilingualism, and bilingual education.[3] Piller is Distinguished Professor at Macquarie University[4] and an elected fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.[5] Piller serves as Editor-in-Chief of the academic journal Multilingua[6] and as founding editor of the research dissemination site Language on the Move.[7] She is a member of the Australian Research Council (ARC) College of Experts.[8]
Piller received her PhD from the Technical University Dresden in 1995 for a thesis about American Automobile Names.[9] In 2007, Piller was appointed executive director of the Adult Migrant English Program Research Center at Macquarie University.[10] She is a member of the executive group of the international research network "Social participation across generations in linguistically diverse societies – risks and chances in times of crises".[11]
Piller works in Applied Linguistics and Sociolinguistics with a focus on Intercultural Communication, Language Learning, Multilingualism, and Bilingual Education. Her research examines the social consequences of linguistic diversity resulting from migration and globalization for employment, education, and other aspects of social participation.
According to Google Scholar, her work has been cited more than 7,100 times.[12]