With all good wishes from the 2021 Language-on-the-Move team!
The Language-on-the-Move team is closing shop for another summer break!
2021 has been a traumatic year with the ongoing pandemic, the continued assault on our planet, and the relentless evidence that so many of our institutions are broken.
Still, there is the moral imperative for hope!
We run Language-on-the-Move as a volunteer effort that is largely outside the profit motive that otherwise governs our capitalist lives.
As bell hooks, whose recent passing we mourn, has taught us, seeing and creating value that is above and beyond the profit motive is fundamental to progressive struggle.
That’s why Language on the Move matters, and why we are looking back on our achievements this year with pride and towards the future with courage.
Below you’ll find a list of our 2021 blog posts so that you can re-read your favorites and discover new ones.
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We wish all our readers restful holidays and all the best for 2022!
December
- Ingrid Piller, Monolingual school websites as barriers to parent engagement
- Pia Tenedero, Publishing is an insiders’ game
- Li Jia, Peripheral language learners and the romance of Thai
Did you know that we also host an (occasional) YouTube channel?
November
- Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2022
- Pia Tenedero, Ambiguous lockdown rules can make compliance difficult
- Language diversity across generations and contexts
- Li Jia, Esports are the new linguistic and cultural frontier
- How to get published?
- Ingrid Piller, Securing the border of English and Whiteness
- Laura Smith-Khan, Bringing linguistic research to legal education
October
- Ingrid Piller, Language and communication in crisis
- Ingrid Piller, Can we ever unthink linguistic nationalism?
September
- COVID-19 dominates Hamburg International Summer School
- Alexandra Grey, Ideologies of English in Asia
- LI Jia and LI Yongzhen, Language across three generations of Hani minority women
August
- Ingrid Piller, English, China, and the Olympic Games
- Emily Farrell, Britta Schneider, and Dorothea Horst, Open research in language and society
- Loy Lising, Language month in the Philippines
Our new collaborations through the Next Generation Literacies research network have been exciting
July
- Pia Tenedero, Covid-safe travel between care and compliance
- Ingrid Piller, We, heirs of the multilingual Sumerians
June
- Ingrid Piller, The interpreting profession in Ancient Egypt
- Ingrid Piller, What can churches teach us about migrant inclusion?
- Paolo Niño Valdez, COVID-19 and the struggle for inclusive mobility
- Alexandra Grey, Language rights in a changing China
May
- Ingrid Piller, There’s linguistics in the science of immunization
- Amelia Baggerman and Bonnie James, How the pandemic changed our teaching practicum
- Alexandra Grey, Bringing linguistic research into legal scholarship and practice
April
- Judy Kalman, Keyboard, pen, paper, syringe: Covid-19 vaccination as multiple literacy events
- Ingrid Piller, Thinking language with chocolate
This is what makes #linguistics so exciting:
“to explain #language, we seem to need nothing short of ‘a theory of everything’— everything distinctive about human consciousness, life, and culture taken as a whole” pic.twitter.com/UzWFAtc2R6
— Language on the Move (@Lg_on_the_Move) July 28, 2021
March
- Li Jia, International education in RCEP, the world’s largest free trade zone
- Loy Lising, Hazara Academic Awards Night
- Ingrid Piller, Remembering cancelling women
- Designing and using a bilingual writer corpus
February
January
- Pia Tenedero, 10 secrets to surviving your PhD
- Ingrid Piller, Language and social justice
Previous annual reports
For an even deeper trip down memory lane, here is the list of all our archives:
- Language on the Move 2020
- Language on the Move 2019
- Language on the Move 2018
- Language on the Move 2017
- Language on the Move 2016
- Language on the Move 2015
- Language on the Move 2014
- Language on the Move 2013
- Language on the Move 2012
- Language on the Move 2011
- Language on the Move 2010
- Language on the Move 2009
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Useful post. Thanks for sharing this informative post with us.
Thank you, Ingrid, for introducing Language on the Move to me during my Masters. Even though, my initial use was exclusively for my assignments, it has proven to be a really great resource over time. I always look out for pieces to read as they never fail to be insightful and relevant so many areas of Linguistics. I look forward to what is coming in the future!
Thank you, Tazin! And I’m looking forward to your research journey 🙂
Thanks Ingrid, for a very moving message on the complexity of our times and a tribute to a great thinker and educator. It is a great privilege to be part of the team and I wish everyone a safe and happy end to 2021.
Compliments to the LOTM team for such a productive year despite the difficulties brought by the COVID-19 pandemic. I agree with Li Jia that this is a genuinely collaborative platform; the mentorship of LOTM has been crucial in my growth as an ECR. Thank you to all the LOTM team for conducting such relevant sociolinguistic research and making it accessible to such a broad audience. Happy holidays to all the contributors and readers of LOTM!
Thank you, Ana, for being part of the team! Can’t wait to see what your research holds next year 🙂
Congratulations Language on the move for great insightful contributions during what has been really challenging time for everyone! I would like to particularly appreciate all the efforts made to bring the issues of linguistic and social injustices to the fore. I wish Language on the move a hopeful end of the year 2021, and great success in the upcoming year!!!
Thank you, Madiha, and good luck with your research! We’ll be looking forward to hearing more about it in the New Year! 🙂
Truly, Language on the Move is such a collaborative platform supporting and nourishing each one of us in various research stages. It’s so encouraging to see the increasing diversity of our authors and readers from all over the world. Best wishes to LOTM!
Thank you, Li Jia, for being a key member of our team! And for all the innovative research you are conducting with your students and sharing with our readers!