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The world’s top-2% most-cited linguists

The 2022 Stanford list of the World’s Top 2% Scientists has just been released. It includes 335 linguists. So, I've done some quick number crunching to see who they are…

Ingrid PillerOctober 17, 2022

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Researching multilingually as a political act

Editor's note: Multilingualism researchers and the products of their research can be surprisingly monolingual. It is therefore good to see the black box of multilingual research processes under the microscope…

Language on the MoveJuly 3, 2022

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In memoriam Hans Sauer

I am deeply saddened by the unexpected passing of my Doktorvater, Professor Hans Sauer. The German “Doktorvater” is usually translated as “PhD supervisor/advisor” but the literal translation “doctoral father” is…

Ingrid PillerJune 5, 2022

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How to challenge Anglocentricity in academic publishing

Top-10 countries producing linguistics research (Source: Scimago Journal & Country Rank) US- and UK-based scholars dominate linguistics Global academic knowledge production is dominated by the Anglosphere. In Linguistics, for example,…

Ingrid PillerMay 11, 2022

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How I became an Applied Linguist with a China focus

Applied linguistics is the study of language-based problems in the world, or as Brumfit (1997) puts it, “the theoretical and empirical investigation of real-world problems in which language is a…

Jeffrey GilApril 11, 2022

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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 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

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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

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Remembering cancelled women

There is a lot of talk about “cancel culture” these days. For instance, we are told that Dr Seuss recently got cancelled because his name was not mentioned during some…

Ingrid PillerMarch 8, 2021

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10 secrets to surviving your PhD

After 3 years of hard work, today I hit the "submit" button on my PhD thesis Today, I’ve submitted my PhD for examination – a major milestone on my PhD…

Pia TenederoJanuary 31, 2021

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Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2021

2020 has been a strange year for reading: some of us have had a lot more time for reading, others far less. Regardless whether you’ve been able to indulge or…

Language on the MoveDecember 3, 2020

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My African-Australian story

Dr Vera Williams Tetteh tells her story to AfrOzcentric Often in my work as a sociolinguistic ethnographer, I am the one seeking out people and asking questions to learn about…

Vera Williams TettehOctober 26, 2020

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Communicating globally while working remotely

https://vimeo.com/440477672 Besides meetings, webinars, and classes, another traditionally face-to-face event organized this year via Zoom is the 3-minute thesis (3MT) competition. This yearly academic contest, which challenges students to explain…

Pia TenederoAugust 20, 2020

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Coming to terms with ourselves in our research

Editor’s note: We find ourselves in a time of deep global crisis when reflections on research ethics take on new urgency. Language on the Move is delighted to bring to…

Johanna Ennser-KananenJuly 8, 2020

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Are funding decisions based on “societal impact” ethical?

Editor’s note: We find ourselves in a time of deep global crisis when reflections on research ethics take on new urgency. Language on the Move is delighted to bring to…

Taina SaarinenJune 24, 2020

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Do concepts and methods have ethics?

Editor’s note: We find ourselves in a time of deep global crisis when reflections on research ethics take on new urgency. Language on the Move is delighted to bring to…