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Covid-19

Essential messages for our time

Editor’s note: The Covid-19 pandemic has led to a renewed focus on linguistic diversity and the way it intersects with social inclusion. In this latest contribution to our series of language…

Anna WierzbickaJuly 28, 2020

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Linguistic diversity and inclusion in the era of COVID-19

Editor’s note: The Covid-19 pandemic has led to a renewed focus on linguistic diversity and the way it intersects with social inclusion. In this latest contribution to our series of language…

Sarah HopkynsJuly 17, 2020

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COVID-19 health information campaigns in the Philippines

Image 1: Infographic in Tagalog on ways to prevent the spread of COVID-19 infection Editor’s note: Timely and equitable access to information for linguistically diverse populations continues to be a…

Loy LisingJuly 13, 2020

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What does the post-COVID-19 future hold for Confucius Institutes?

Editor’s note: The COVID-19 pandemic has seen a major shift in global linguistic and cultural flows. In this latest contribution to our series of language aspects of the COVID-19 crisis, Jeffrey…

Jeffrey GilJuly 10, 2020

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How to communicate while working from home

Editor’s note: Working from home due to the Covid-19 pandemic has raised new communication challenges for many. In this latest contribution to our series of language aspects of the COVID-19…

Pia TenederoJuly 5, 2020

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Why it’s important to use Indigenous languages in health communication

Editor’s note: The Covid-19 pandemic has brought the persistent health disadvantage of Indigenous populations into focus, as well as the exclusion of Indigenous languages from public health communication. In this…

Gregory Haimovich and Herlinda Márquez MoraJune 9, 2020

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How to improve Australia’s public health messaging about Covid-19

Exterior of a pub at an intersection in the shopping hub of Burwood, a highly diverse suburb of Sydney Editor’s note: Do public health messages about the Covid-19 pandemic match…

Alexandra GreyJune 1, 2020

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Recent-arrival migrant students during the Covid-19 school closures

Elisabeth Barakos and Simone Plöger, University of Hamburg *** Editor’s note: Learning from home is hard enough but what if you are simultaneously learning the language of instruction? In this…

Language on the MoveMay 25, 2020

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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

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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

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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

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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

Essential messages for our time

COVID-19 health information campaigns in the Philippines

What does the post-COVID-19 future hold for Confucius Institutes?

How to communicate while working from home

Why it’s important to use Indigenous languages in health communication

How to improve Australia’s public health messaging about Covid-19

Recent-arrival migrant students during the Covid-19 school closures

Homeschooling during Covid-19: research participants wanted

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

Language challenges of Covid-19 are a pressing issue

Multilingual resources key to fighting COVID-19

How are language service providers affected by COVID-19?

Language lessons of COVID-19 and linguistic disaster preparedness

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