Tibet is changing fast Image 1: Chinese and international brands in the most developed commercial area of Rongwo (Image credit: Giulia Cabras) One of the most striking aspects that catches…
Giulia CabrasOctober 25, 2024
Welcome back to another year of research blogging on and about language on the move! We kick off 2022 with a new episode in our Chats in Linguistic Diversity. In…
Ingrid PillerJanuary 17, 2022
"This is English", a shop assistant told me. Language is literally “on the move” in the writing on clothing. We’ve all seen it but may not have taken much notice.…
Alexandra GreyApril 11, 2018
How is your Language-on-the-Move Reading Challenge coming along? One month has gone by and you should have ticked off at least one book from our list. I started with an…
Ingrid PillerMarch 1, 2018
Multilingual "Welcome" sign in a shopping mall in Munich, Germany Have you recently seen a “welcome” sign? They constitute a strange genre: ever more ubiquitous on the one hand, yet…
Ingrid PillerOctober 31, 2017
We all have childhood dreams. Mine was to become a writer, which, unfortunately, was not well received by my parents because it is a “hungry” job. Due to the absence…
Jinhyun ChoSeptember 1, 2017
Everyone wants to be a winner in the dating game; but it doesn't always work that way ... A 2015 article in the New York Post argued that mobile dating…
Livia GerberDecember 8, 2016
A couple of years ago, I mused here on Language on the Move what linguistic theory would look like if its dominant cultural ideas had not been shaped in 1950s…
Ingrid PillerSeptember 29, 2016
A monument near Baganuur (Outer Mongolia) with an inscription of poem "My Native Land" by Natsagdorj (Source: Wikipedia) In the middle school Mongolian textbooks there is a well-known text called…
Gegentuul BaioudNovember 18, 2015
'Luxury permanent' Mongolian yurt for sale on Alibaba Last week when I saw in my friends’ Wechat group an advertisement for delicately made Mongolian yurts, I thought of an article…
Gegentuul BaioudJuly 1, 2015
A locutorio shop front in Barcelona (Source: El Periodico) There is now a well-established body of work exploring the language work provided by service workers in call centres and tourist…
Ingrid PillerSeptember 22, 2014
Yangshuo's West Street (Source: chinatravelca) Tourism has been found to be beneficial for minority language maintenance in a number of contexts from around the world. For instance, Anand Torrents Alcaraz…
Ingrid PillerJune 23, 2014
Actress Noemí Busquets as the wise yet naughty Esperanceta Gassia at the Ecomuseu de les Valls d’Àneu during the theatrical night visit to the ethnographic museum of Esterri d’ Àneu…
Anand Torrents AlcarazMay 27, 2014
Business card promoting private English tuition In Iran, as in many other countries around the globe, the craze for learning English has been on the rise. This tendency is attributed…
Vahid ParvareshAugust 22, 2013
Who profits from an early start in English language learning? 不要讓你的孩子輸在起跑點上 (Don’t let your children lose out at the starting point.) is one of the most popular slogans whenever English…
Jackie ChangMay 6, 2013
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