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Language in Australia

Monolingual mindset in the lucky country

National holidays are there to celebrate the nation and the opinion pages tend to be full of self-congratulation on such occasions. Australia is no exception and one of the more…
Intercultural communication

Eating, othering and bonding

Yucky worms or yummy treats? When I arrived in the UK from Poland in 2004, I did not know that prawns even existed. During our first dubious encounter, I categorized…
Chats in Linguistic Diversity

The Rise of English

In Episode 17 of the Language on the Move Podcast, Ingrid Piller speaks with Rosemary Salomone about her 2021 book The Rise of English: Global Politics and the Power of…
Language and social justice
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Language and social justice
How language can entrench disadvantage
Multilingual families
English only on this American playground please
Intercultural communication
The banal nationalism of intercultural communication advice
Language and law
Guidelines for communicating rights to non-native speakers of English
Language politics
Is it ok for linguists to hate new words?