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Language Rights Defenders Award

Tove Skutnabb-Kangas (1940-2023) The Global Coalition for Language Rights is pleased to announce the first annual Language Rights Defenders Award. This award aims to recognize and honor individuals who demonstrate…
Gerald Roche
March 28, 2024

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Intercultural communication

Intercultural Communication Training for Translators

"A translator's profession can never only entail rendering meaning from one language to another but always involves translating from one culture to another" (www.pictllp.eu/) The ever-more globalised world of today…
Language at work

The monolingual mindset goes to war

I can only speak Pashto ABC News yesterday broke a whistleblower report that US army interpreters deployed in Afghanistan often don’t speak the local languages. ABC News reports that up…
Language and globalization

Urban sociolinguistics in Dubai

A couple of years ago, I mused here on Language on the Move what linguistic theory would look like if its dominant cultural ideas had not been shaped in 1950s…
Language in education
Educating Burmese migrant students in China
Intercultural communication
The interpreting profession in Ancient Egypt
Language in Australia
Indigenous language denialism in Australia
Language and tourism
New Swiss Christianity: Let’s build brothels
Language politics
Counting the uncountable: linguistic diversity in Nepal
Language and social justice
Language and social justice