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Ingrid Piller, PhD, FAHA, is Professor of Applied Linguistics at Macquarie University, Sydney. Her research expertise is in the fields of intercultural communication, bilingual education and the sociolinguistics of language learning and multilingualism in the contexts of migration and globalization.