Language on the Move

Next Gen Literacies Research reflections

Publishing is an insiders game

At the beginning of this year, Dr Pia Tenedero shared 10 tips to survive your PhD. As the year comes to a close, we hear from her again with reflections…

Ingrid PillerDecember 10, 2021

Next Gen Literacies

Peripheral language learners and the romance of Thai

The South China-Laos-Thailand region with the new railway line (Source: South China Morning Post) Language learning through watching films and playing videogames is a new trend. This kind of informal…

Li JiaDecember 4, 2021

Next Gen Literacies Research reflections

Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2022

The Language on the Move Reading Challenge is designed to encourage broad reading in the discipline and beyond, and to make linguistics reading fun. Anyone with an interest in the…

Language on the MoveNovember 30, 2021

Covid-19

Ambiguous lockdown rules can make compliance difficult

An area under "total lockdown" (Image credit: rappler.com) Lockdowns everywhere The lockdown discourse has become ubiquitous, especially in current affairs and social media. In fact, ‘lockdown’ and ‘quarantine’ have been…

Pia TenederoNovember 22, 2021

News

Language diversity across generations and contexts

(Image credit: John Schaidler via Unsplash) The Next Generation Literacies international research network hosts a free 2-day research symposium devoted to language diversity and participation across generations and contexts. When:…

Language on the MoveNovember 19, 2021

Next Gen Literacies

Esports are the new linguistic and cultural frontier

The heroic EDG esports winning team of League of Legends Chinese esports team Edward Gaming, or EDG for short, has just won the first ever Leagues of Legend (LoL) world…

Li JiaNovember 15, 2021

News

How to get published?

Let's demystify academic publishing! (Image credit: Green Chameleon via Unsplash) The Next Generation Literacies international research network hosts a free 2-day workshop for PhD candidates and early career researchers devoted…

Language on the MoveNovember 12, 2021

Next Gen Literacies

Securing the borders of English and Whiteness

Australia as a White nation has deep roots: the aim of this 1914 board game was literally "to get the Coloured Men out and the White men in" (Image credit:…

Ingrid PillerNovember 8, 2021

Language and law Next Gen Literacies

Bringing linguistic research to legal education

Image credit: Chris Montgomery via Unsplash Language plays a central role in legal settings. The way linguistic diversity is conceptualized and accommodated can affect access to justice in a myriad…

Laura Smith-KhanNovember 2, 2021

Covid-19 Next Gen Literacies

Language and communication in crisis

Malinche mediating between the Spanish and the Americans (Source: Lienzo de Tlaxcala, mid 16th c) We live in an age of crisis, as humanity confronts an ever-escalating climate and environmental…

Ingrid PillerOctober 30, 2021

Chats in Linguistic Diversity Multilingual histories

Can we ever unthink linguistic nationalism?

In this latest installment of Chats in Linguistic Diversity, I talk to Professor Aneta Pavlenko about multilingualism through the ages. We start from the question whether the world today is…

Ingrid PillerOctober 4, 2021

Covid-19 News

COVID-19 dominates Hamburg International Summer School

21 Masters and PhD students from 9 countries attended the Hamburg International Summer School 2021 devoted to “Language Diversity, Education, and Social Participation” How do train stations across Europe deal…

Language on the MoveSeptember 22, 2021

News

Ideologies of English in Asia

Language on the Move regulars, Jinhyun Cho, Loy Lising, and I have teamed up with a number of early career linguists to produce a special issue of the International Journal…

Alexandra GreySeptember 20, 2021

Language across three generations of Hani minority women

LI Jia and LI Yongzhen, Yunnan University *** The Hani are one of the officially recognized ethnic minorities in China, and can also be found across the border in Myanmar,…

Li JiaSeptember 16, 2021

English as a global language

English, China, and the Olympic Games

The rise of China has been one of the defining characteristics of the early 21st century. The increase in China’s economic, geopolitical, and military clout has been accompanied by a…

Ingrid PillerAugust 20, 2021

Research reflections

Open research in language and society

Emily Farrell, Britta Schneider, and Dorothea Horst, Europa-Universität Viadrina *** The push towards making research free and open to read, in all its parts and forms, from data sets to…

Emily FarrellAugust 10, 2021

Publishing is an insiders game

Peripheral language learners and the romance of Thai

Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2022

Ambiguous lockdown rules can make compliance difficult

Language diversity across generations and contexts

Esports are the new linguistic and cultural frontier

How to get published?

Securing the borders of English and Whiteness

Bringing linguistic research to legal education

Language and communication in crisis

Can we ever unthink linguistic nationalism?

Ideologies of English in Asia

English, China, and the Olympic Games

Open research in language and society

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