Language on the Move

Covid-19

How are language service providers affected by COVID-19?

Lifei Wang, School of Translation and Interpreting, Beijing Language and Culture University Jiangwei Sun, School of Translation and Interpreting, Beijing Language and Culture University Jie Ren, School of Translation and…

Language on the MoveApril 1, 2020

Covid-19

Language lessons of COVID-19 and linguistic disaster preparedness

Li Yuming Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Language Resources and Research Center for Standardized Use of Chinese Language, Beijing Language and Culture University *** Editor’s note: This is a translated…

Language on the MoveMarch 27, 2020

Covid-19

Linguistic diversity and public health: sociolinguistic perspectives on COVID-19

Call for papers for a special issue of Multilingua devoted to “Linguistic diversity and public health: sociolinguistic perspectives on COVID-19” edited by Ingrid Piller, Jie Zhang, and Jia Li. The…

Ingrid PillerMarch 16, 2020

Language and globalization

Preparing Filipino accountants to communicate in global workplaces

How do universities in the Philippines prepare accounting students for communication in global workplaces? Watch this research presentation by Pia Tenedero to find out. This presentation was originally intended for…

Language on the MoveMarch 9, 2020

Research reflections

Female academics and shamans face the same glass ceiling

It’s another International Women’s Day and time to reflect on powerful women: what is most noticeable about them is that there are so few of them. In academia, for instance,…

Ingrid PillerMarch 8, 2020

Covid-19

Coronavirus meets linguistic diversity

Before celebrating China’s Spring Festival, my husband and I were talking about new sources of local economic growth thanks to President Xi Jinping’s visit to Tengchong right after his first…

Li JiaMarch 4, 2020

Covid-19

Fighting COVID-19 with folklore

Jin Gang performing a fiddle story about the heroism of health workers Nothing seems further from the fight against COVID-19 than traditional folklore. However, an ancient Mongolian art form, the…

Gegentuul BaioudFebruary 27, 2020

Covid-19

Racism hinders the fight against COVID-19

The official WHO name of the disease I am a citizen of Wuhan. Like millions of other Wuhan residents who now live in a state of fear and anxiety, the…

Zhang Jie 张洁February 25, 2020

News

Critical inclusion and the doctoral student

Our Lectures in Linguistic Diversity are back for another year and we are starting with a guest lecture by Dr David Hyatt, University of Sheffield, UK. Date: Tuesday, 10 March…

Language on the MoveFebruary 21, 2020

Covid-19

Fighting the coronavirus in local languages

Disinfectant activities I am writing this from my village in the mountainous Tibetan regions of western Sichuan Province, in China. We have been on lockdown for almost a month, and…

Yu LhaFebruary 17, 2020

News

Language Diversity, Education, and Social Participation

Hamburg University will run a summer school devoted to "Language Diversity, Education, and Social Participation" this July. Abstract Linguistic (as well as cultural and social) diversity are basic characteristics of…

Language on the MoveFebruary 10, 2020

Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice in Arabic

"التنوع اللغوي والعدالة الاجتماعية" - قريبا باللغة العربية حنان بن نافع "اللغة هي أكثر ما يكشف الرجل: تكلم، حتى أراك". يمكن القول بأن هذه المقولة المشهورة للكاتب المسرحي بن…

Hanan Ben NafaFebruary 3, 2020

Language and law

Linguistics meets law

Laura and Alex getting ready for their presentation at the Humboldt Symposium This time two years ago, Alexandra Grey (my blog co-author) and I had realized that there were important…

Laura Smith-KhanJanuary 20, 2020

Language revitalization and radical politics

In his 2005 article ‘Will Indigenous Languages Survive?’ Michael Walsh described language revitalization as ‘profoundly political’. And Jacqueline Urla, in discussing the Basque language movement, has said that language revitalization…

Gerald RocheJanuary 13, 2020

Research reflections

Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2020

Read a lot, write a lot! Reading enhances your productivity as this selection (!) of recent books authored by Language-on-the-Move team members proves Are you ready for the Language on…

Ingrid PillerJanuary 8, 2020

News

Language on the Move 2019

You, too, can look as stylish as the Language-on-the-Move team. Get in the draw to win one our 10-year anniversary t-shirts! 2019 is almost over and before we head into…

Language on the MoveDecember 30, 2019