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Language and social justice

Language and social justice

Language on the Move is back from our summer break! And we start the year with a quick intro to language and social justice. How and why are language and…
Intercultural communication

“We not ship to Russia”

I went onto e-bay this weekend and, instead of the gadget I was after, found some non-standard uses of English negation: “We not ship to Russia” or “We not use…
Chats in Linguistic Diversity

40 years of Croatian Studies at Macquarie University

In this latest episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, I spoke with Jasna Novak Milić, the director of the Croatian Studies Center at Macquarie University. The Croatian Studies…
Multilingual histories
Erasing diversity
Language and migration
“Broken Arabic” between mockery and commercialization
Language and law
Are we all different in the same way?
Linguistic landscapes
Toiletology
Language politics
“I regret having named him Sahil”: Urdu names in India
Language and social justice
Can speaking dialect make you ugly?