Language on the Move

English as a global language

Minority languages on the rise?

LI Jia and LV Yong, Yunnan University *** Editor’s note: There is a Chinese saying that two heads are better than one (三个臭皮匠赛过一个诸葛亮). This proverb emphasizes both collective wisdom and the…

Li JiaOctober 21, 2020

Power to fangyan!

LI Jia and LV Yong, Yunnan University *** Editor's note: There is a Chinese saying that two heads are better than one (三个臭皮匠赛过一个诸葛亮). This proverb emphasizes both collective wisdom and the…

Li JiaOctober 19, 2020

Language and law

Language learning is integral to practice-based legal education

Language learning is integral to practice-based legal education, and needs to be given more attention in research and course design. That’s the key message of my recently published article about…

Alexandra GreyOctober 15, 2020

Covid-19

More on crisis communication in multilingual Australia

Editor’s note: The Covid-19 crisis has exposed fractures in the social and linguistic fabric in many contexts internationally, as we have been documenting in our series of language aspects of the…

Language on the MoveOctober 13, 2020

Covid-19

Crisis communication in multilingual Australia

Editor's note: The Covid-19 crisis has exposed fractures in the social and linguistic fabric in many contexts internationally, as we have been documenting in our series of language aspects of…

Language on the MoveOctober 12, 2020

Covid-19

Covid-19 misinformation between globalization and the reptilian brain

Editor’s note: Covid-19 has exposed fractures in the social and linguistic fabric in many contexts internationally, as we have been documenting in our series of language aspects of the COVID-19 crisis…

Mohamed TaiebineSeptember 26, 2020

Multilingual histories

Alexander von Humboldt visits Australia

Alexander von Humboldt was born on 14 September 1769, and the Australian Association of von Humboldt Fellows celebrates its namesake’s birthday annually, normally with dinners of Fellows in capital cities…

Gabrielle McMullenSeptember 16, 2020

Language in Australia

Decolonising sociolinguistic research

Celeste Rodriguez Louro and Glenys Collard, University of Western Australia *** The histories and everyday experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia are etched in the landscape,…

Language on the MoveSeptember 14, 2020

Covid-19

Covid-19 exposes language and migration tensions in Denmark

Martha Sif Karrebæk and Solvej Helleshøj Sørensen, University of Copenhagen *** Editor’s note: Covid-19 has exposed fractures in the social and linguistic fabric in many contexts internationally, as we have…

Language on the MoveSeptember 9, 2020

Covid-19

Linguistic diversity in a time of crisis

The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed language barriers in societies around the world. It has become obvious that the fact of linguistic diversity had not been incorporated systematically into emergency…

Ingrid PillerSeptember 4, 2020

Covid-19

Does every Australian have an equal chance to know about Covid-19 restrictions?

Readability scores of the two selected public service information texts by the NSW Government This morning I googled “nsw corona/covid restrictions”. The top hits all refer to NSW Government websites,…

Ingrid PillerSeptember 1, 2020

Language in education

Will education reform wipe out Mongolian language and culture?

A herder guards the Mongolian script (Image credit: Ayin) As the danger of life-threatening Covid-19 has subsided, Mongols in Inner Mongolia, a region of northern China, have faced a new…

Gegentuul BaioudAugust 30, 2020

Intercultural communication

Why the linguist needs the historian

Diagram of the ‘radial definition routes’ of Panoptic Conjugation (Ogden 1930: 12) A fascinating turn in recent Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) scholarship is the development of 'Minimal English', an international…

James McElvennyAugust 28, 2020

News

Literacy in heritage language maintenance

The NSW Federation of Community Language Schools offers an online master class about "Literacy in heritage language maintenance" as part of its community language teacher training development series. This series…

Language on the MoveAugust 25, 2020

Research reflections

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

Chats in Linguistic Diversity Next Gen Literacies

What can Australian Message Sticks teach us about literacy?

Few people have ever heard about a fascinating form of visual communication used by Indigenous Australians: message sticks. When I teach about the invention of writing, I usually mention them…

Ingrid PillerAugust 18, 2020

Language learning is integral to practice-based legal education

Alexander von Humboldt visits Australia

Linguistic diversity in a time of crisis

Why the linguist needs the historian

Literacy in heritage language maintenance

Communicating globally while working remotely

What can Australian Message Sticks teach us about literacy?

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