Formal Name: Kimie Takahashi Personal Title: Dr Position: Postdoctoral fellow Qualification: BA Griffith, MA Griffith, PhD Sydney Telephone: +61 2 9850 9939 Fax: +61 2 9850 9199 Email: kimie.takahashi@mq.edu.au Website: Co-founder of www.languageonthemove.org Location: W6C 121

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Dr Kimie Takahashi is a postdoctoral fellow at the AMEP Research Centre. Originally from Japan, she migrated to Australia in 1992 and has a BA in Applied Psychology and an MA in Applied Linguistics from Griffith University, and a PhD in Education from the University of Sydney. Her doctoral thesis, a critical ethnography of Japanese women learning English in Australia, provides a fresh insight into the intricate relationship between desire, gender, and second language learning. While undertaking her doctoral research, she taught Applied Linguistics (Language and Identity) at the postgraduate level and undergraduate Japanese. In 2002 Kimie also produced a comprehensive report on Australian immigration policy, commissioned by the Japanese Ministry of Justice. Together with Ingrid Piller, Kimie is co-founder of a sociolinguistics portal, Language on the Move.

Research interests:

• language desire: identity, power, and second language learning
• critical discourse analysis: gender, media and English language industry
• older second language learners: the case of Japanese post-war baby boomers

Thesis Title:

Language Desire: A Critical Ethnography of Japanese women Learning English in Australia (Sydney University, 2006). Read the abstract.

Award:

2009 - The Extra Mile Award, the Faculty of Human Sciences, Macquarie University.

Language on the Move: Sociolinguistics website 

Publications:

Takahashi, K. (forthcoming 2011). Japanese flight attendants: Gender, desire and social inclusion in international tourism. Special issue on Multilingualism, Second Language Learning and Social Inclusion (guest editors: Ingrid Piller and Kimie Takahashi), The Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism.

Piller, I. & Takahashi, K. (forthcoming 2011). Introduction. Special issue on Multilingualism, Second Language Learning and Social Inclusion (guest editors: Ingrid Piller and Kimie Takahashi), The Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism.

Takahashi, K. (under review). Multilingualism and gender. In M. Martin-Jones, A. Blackledge, and A. Creese (Eds), Handbook of Multilingualism, Routledge.

Piller, I., & Takahashi, K. (In press 2010). At the intersection of gender, language, and transnationalism. In Nikolas Coupland. Ed. Handbook of Language and Globalisation. Malden, MA: Blackwell. (Read a pre-print).

Takahashi, K. (In press, March 2010). Multilingual Couple Talk: Romance, identity and the political economy of language. In D. Nunan and J. Choi (Eds.), Language, Culture and Identity: A Microethnographic Approach. Routledge. (Read a pre-print).

Piller, I. & K. Takahashi. (In press, 2010). Language, Migration, and Human Rights. In Wodak, Ruth, Paul Kerswill and Barbara Johnstone. Eds. Handbook of Sociolinguistics. London: Sage. (Read a preprint)

Takahashi, K. (2009). Migration, gender and second language learning [Gender to dainigengo gakushuu: Iminjyosei no shigoto]. In C. Kawamura, A. Kondoh & H. Nakamoto (Eds.), Living Together in a Multicultural Society: Approaches to Immigration Policy [lminseisaku eno approach: Raifusaikuru to tabunkakyousei] (pp. 256-258). Tokyo: Akashi Shoten Publishing.

Piller, I., & Takahashi, K. (2006). A Passion for English: Desire and the Language Market. In A. Pavlenko (Ed.), Languages and emotions of multilingual speakers (pp. 59-83). Clevedon, England: Multilingual Matters. (Full text).

Conferences

2010

Title: "How do you do sexy in English?": The Discourse of Relationship English, To be presented at the American Association of Applied Linguistics Conferene, Aylanta, US,
March 6-9

2009

Title: Gender, desire and linguistic capital in international tourism, part of the panel "Language learning, multilingualism and social inclusion" (co-convened by Ingrid Piller & Kimie Takahashi). The International Pragmatics Association Conference, University of Melbourne, Australia, July 12-17. The entire panel presentation, including the recording of Kimie's abstract and talk is available on Language on the Move.

Title: "Easiest job ever!": Tourism, gender and second language learning. Second International Discourse and Cultural Practices, the University of Sydney, Australia, 7-9 July 2009.

Title: Linguistics and emotional labor in global tourism; Transnational flight attendants. To be presented at the Second Global Studies Conference, Zayed University, Dubai Campus, United Emirates, May 30 - June 1. Abstract.

Emily Farrell, PhD awarded in December 2009 (Main supervisor: Ingrid Piller): Emily is currently a DAAD fellow at the Freie Universität, Berlin, where she is studying multilingual practices in the ever-growing transnational art and music community in Berlin. Twitter Officer for Language on the Move.

Vera Williams Tetteh, PhD candidate (Main supervisor: Ingrid Piller): Winner of the HDR Excellence 2009 Award, the Faculty of Human Sciences, Macquarie University.

Jie Zhang (Jenny), PhD candidate (Main supervisor: Ingrid Piller): Junior Forum Moderator for Language on the Move.

Donna Butorac, PhD candidate (main supervisor - Ingrid Piller)