Language on the Move

Language in Australia

Holiday treat for language lovers

ABC Radio National has the perfect holiday treat for language lovers: a 5-part podcast series about multilingualism in Australia. In "Tongue-tied and fluent", Masako Fukui and Sheila Ngoc Pham (who…

Ingrid PillerDecember 23, 2019

Research reflections

Where does academic authority come from?

The following is a summary of my recent article "On the conditions of authority in academic publics" in 14 tweets. The paper was published in the Journal of Sociolinguistics; an…

Ingrid PillerDecember 16, 2019

News

Awards for our Higher Degree Research

Professor Simon Handley, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Human Sciences, congratulates our HDR Excellence Award winners The year ends on a final high note for our team with three…

Language on the MoveDecember 13, 2019

The Sociolinguistics of Late Modern Publics

Language on the Move is primarily concerned with linguistic resources that, in one way or another, have been or are ‘on the move’ and thus develops a profound understanding of…

Britta SchneiderDecember 9, 2019

Research reflections

Sharing knowledge in the spirit of Humboldt

Attendees of the Humboldt Symposium 2019 pose for a group photo Update, Dec 30, 2019: The official report, including program and book of abstracts is now available here. *** Regular…

Ingrid PillerNovember 29, 2019

News

Multilingual development over time

Professor Ingrid Gogolin (Image credit: Markus Scholz) ***Update Nov 18, 2019: Due to unforeseen circumstances this lecture has been cancelled.*** On Monday, November 25, we'll host the final Lecture in Linguistic…

Language on the MoveOctober 25, 2019

Can speaking dialect make you ugly?

The link between language and identity is a subject written about most profusely by linguists, and it never seems to fall into obsolescence. Yet, novelists manipulate the association between language…

Gegentuul BaioudOctober 16, 2019

Language and globalization

Why being in one place matters for transnational language use

Welcome message to the Aga Khan IV inscribed into the mountain, Pasu, Upper Hunza, Pakistan Transnationalism is a notion that is both presumed to be clear whilst also recognised as…

Brook BolanderOctober 9, 2019

News

Happy birthday, Language on the Move!

Happy birthday, Language on the Move team! Artwork by Sadami Konchi Readers, it's our birthday! Language on the Move first went live ten years ago on Oct 04, 2009. Founded…

Ingrid PillerOctober 4, 2019

Next Gen Literacies

What can you do so that your device doesn’t make you stupid?

(Image credit: Psychology Today) Device use is a major contemporary education challenge for parents and teachers alike. In our family, we have fairly strict rules around the use of internet-connected…

Ingrid PillerSeptember 7, 2019

News

Humboldt Symposium 2019

Alexander von Humboldt, Portrait by Friedrich Georg Weitsch, 1806 (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / Photographer: Karin März / Montage: Raufeld Medien) Registrations are now open for the 2019 biennial…

Language on the MoveSeptember 5, 2019

Next Gen Literacies

Gaming language learning

For one of my postgraduate courses in Applied Linguistics, I was asked to write an assignment about my language learning history. Recalling all the phases I went through to learn…

Luis Torres VasquezAugust 28, 2019

Language at work

Critical Skills for Life and Work

The project team at a partners meeting in Leeuwarden, Netherlands Europe recently experienced a dramatic influx of refugees. By the end of 2015, the European Union as a whole had…

Alina SchartnerAugust 21, 2019

Multilingual histories

Reading and mind control

As a child, the Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe (1930-2013) loved stories and he loved reading. Like many children, he was particularly fascinated with tales of adventure, exploration, and discovery. In…

Ingrid PillerAugust 18, 2019

English as a global language

Reading to learn in another language

A non-fluent Latin reader painstakingly worked her way through this text “Man is an obligate aerobe”, I recently read in a medicine book for general readers (Nuland, 1993). The phrase…

Ingrid PillerAugust 11, 2019

News

Lectures in Linguistic Diversity 2019, Term 2

Get ready for another exciting series of events related to linguistic diversity at Macquarie University! This term, our series includes not only lectures by international experts but also a conference,…

Language on the MoveAugust 8, 2019