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Chats in Linguistic Diversity Intercultural communication

Chinese in Qatar

Is Chinese becoming a major linguistic player in Qatar? In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah speaks with Dr. Sara Hillman, Associate Professor of Applied…

Tazin AbdullahJune 19, 2025

Language and law Linguistic landscapes

Making Zhuang language visible

Why do some cities around the world have public signage in multiple languages? Is there a policy behind it, and who does this signage benefit? Is there any multilingual signage…

Alexandra GreyFebruary 28, 2025

Chats in Linguistic Diversity English as a global language

The Rise of English

In Episode 17 of the Language on the Move Podcast, Ingrid Piller speaks with Rosemary Salomone about her 2021 book The Rise of English: Global Politics and the Power of…

Ingrid PillerMay 21, 2024

Chats in Linguistic Diversity Covid-19 Linguistic landscapes

Multilingual Commanding Urgency from Garbage to COVID-19

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Michael Chesnut, Professor in the Department of English for International Conferences and Communication at Hankuk University…

Brynn QuickApril 27, 2024

Language learning Next Gen Literacies

Competing Visions of the Global Promotion of Mandarin

Editor's note: Language learning and teaching is rarely about language alone. Sometimes, it is about making a political statement and taking a soft power approach, as Jeffrey Gil and Minglei…

Jeffrey GilJuly 18, 2023

Language and migration Next Gen Literacies

如何促进移民的社会融入-基督教会带给我们的启示

For an older English-language version of this post, click here. 教堂的中文标识在悉尼的语言景观中越来越突出在以英语占绝对主体地位的语言环境中这些双语的标识是引人注目的更何况汉语…

Yining WangNovember 23, 2022

Next Gen Literacies Research reflections

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

Covid-19 Next Gen Literacies

Care, inclusion, and resistance in Covid linguistic landscapes

Figure 1: Bilingual Squamish and English placard in West Vancouver’s Park Royal shopping village As the Covid-19 pandemic heads toward its third year, with the Omicron variant in full swing,…

Sarah HopkynsJanuary 24, 2022

Next Gen Literacies

Peripheral language learners and the romance of Thai

The South China-Laos-Thailand region with the new railway line (Source: South China Morning Post) Language learning through watching films and playing videogames is a new trend. This kind of informal…

Li JiaDecember 4, 2021

Next Gen Literacies

Esports are the new linguistic and cultural frontier

The heroic EDG esports winning team of League of Legends Chinese esports team Edward Gaming, or EDG for short, has just won the first ever Leagues of Legend (LoL) world…

Li JiaNovember 15, 2021

Language across three generations of Hani minority women

LI Jia and LI Yongzhen, Yunnan University *** The Hani are one of the officially recognized ethnic minorities in China, and can also be found across the border in Myanmar,…

Li JiaSeptember 16, 2021

Language and migration

What can churches teach us about migrant inclusion?

Chinese signage on churches is increasingly prominent in Sydney’s linguistic landscape. These signs are surprising because they are bilingual in a predominantly English monolingual linguistic landscape. They are also surprising…

Ingrid PillerJune 21, 2021

Language and law

Language Rights in a Changing China

Editor’s note: The Language on the Move team is delighted to announce the publication of Language Rights in a Changing China, a new book by our member Dr Alexandra Grey. To celebrate…

Language on the MoveJune 1, 2021

Foreign language learning for minority empowerment?

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 23, 2020

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