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Covid-19 News

Homeschooling during Covid-19: research participants wanted

Image credit: NPR Are you a family who speaks a language other than English at home? Do you have a school-aged child who has been learning from home during the…

Language on the MoveMay 21, 2020

Covid-19

Signs of the times: Small media during Covid-19 in Mexico City

Editor’s note: In this latest contribution to our series of language aspects of the COVID-19 crisis, Judy Kalman takes us on a tour of the Covid-19 linguistic landscape of Mexico City.…

Judy KalmanMay 14, 2020

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Staring down the Covid-19 lockdown with multilingual humor

Sue Ollerhead, Lecturer (Languages Education), Macquarie University, Australia Shepi Mati: Lecturer (Radio) Rhodes University, South Africa Monica Hendricks: Director: Institute for the Study of English in Africa, Rhodes University, South…

Language on the MoveMay 12, 2020

Language and law

Five language myths about refugee credibility

In a world where public debates about refugees and asylum seekers often focus on whether they are telling the truth, it should probably come as no surprise that government processes…

Laura Smith-KhanMay 6, 2020

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Covid-19 forces us to take linguistic diversity seriously

This article was originally published in the digital pamphlet Perspectives on the Pandemic: International Social Science Thought Leaders Reflect on Covid-19 produced by de Gruyter Social Sciences. *** The Covid-19…

Ingrid PillerMay 3, 2020

Covid-19

Language challenges of Covid-19 are a pressing issue

In mid-March, we issued a call for papers for a special issue of the international sociolinguistics journal Multilingua devoted to “Linguistic diversity and public health: sociolinguistic perspectives on Covid-19” edited…

Ingrid PillerApril 24, 2020

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Multilingual resources key to fighting COVID-19

Multilingualism - the use of two or more languages within a polity - is often seen by governments as an impediment, if not a threat, to nation-building and national identity.…

Rizwan AhmadApril 14, 2020

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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