Discrimination – Language on the Move

Language and law

No Justice Without Language Rights

Editor's note: In this conversation with Irene Gotera, Founder of Linguistic Justice®, she discusses her work, her global advocacy for language rights, and her overarching perspective for creating language justice:…

Language on the MoveJune 5, 2024

Intercultural communication

I’m Dying to Speak to You

Flag for autism rights (Image credit: Deviantart) In this post written for autism acceptance month, autistic anthropologist Gerald Roche discusses connections between the communication styles and life expectancy of autistic…

Gerald RocheApril 17, 2024

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

Language politics

“I regret having named him Sahil”: Urdu names in India

Akhlaq Ahmad at work on the mural in Shahdara for the ‘Delhi, I Love You’ project. (Image Credit: Delhi, I Love You) On July 8, 2020, The Wire published an…

Rizwan AhmadJuly 24, 2020

Covid-19

Racism hinders the fight against COVID-19

The official WHO name of the disease I am a citizen of Wuhan. Like millions of other Wuhan residents who now live in a state of fear and anxiety, the…

Zhang Jie 张洁February 25, 2020

Next Gen Literacies

Getting published while foreign

Unpublished manuscripts from the estate of Hans Natonek (Source: Arts in exile) On International Women’s Day I explored why female academics publish less than their male peers. Academic journal submissions…

Ingrid PillerMarch 26, 2018

Next Gen Literacies

Are Aboriginal languages really useless in the workplace?

Click on this image to view video about the role of English and local languages in the educational experiences of Aboriginal children in remote communities Editor's Note: March 21 is…

Brendan KavanaghMarch 19, 2018

Next Gen Literacies

Why do female academics publish less than their male peers?

Participation and success rate of Chief Investigators in ARC Discovery Projects 2018 by gender and career age (Source: ARC) Tomorrow is International Women’s Day and we will therefore look at…

Ingrid PillerMarch 7, 2018

Language in education

Explorations in language shaming

At the recent 16th International Conference on Minority Languages at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, I delivered a keynote lecture about “language shaming”. By “language shaming”, I mean (social) media…

Ingrid PillerSeptember 28, 2017

News

2017 BAAL Book Prize

Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice has won the 2017 annual book prize of the British Association of Applied Linguistics. Although I wasn’t able to attend the conference and award ceremony…

Ingrid PillerSeptember 4, 2017

Language in education

Aboriginal languages matter – but to who?

NAIDOC Week 2017 Logo Every year, the first week of July marks NAIDOC Week - a time to celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and recognise the achievements of…

Britt JacobsenJuly 3, 2017

Intercultural communication

Building bridges in a divided world

"Good people make a good country" by Addo Tetteh As I am trying to finalize the manuscript for the second revised edition of my 2011 book Intercultural Communication: A Critical…

Ingrid PillerNovember 10, 2016

Language and migration

Discrimination by any other name: Language tests and racist migration policy in Australia

Australia: The White Man's Land (Source: NLA) Australia has a proud national narrative of migration and multiculturalism. It also has an equally prevalent history of exclusionary and discriminatory migration policy.…

Laura Smith-KhanDecember 9, 2015

Language and migration

Language or religion: which is the greater fault line in diverse societies?

Churchill Square Shopping Mall, Brighton, UK (Source: Wikipedia) In a shopping mall in the city of Brighton, UK, a tourist was arrested on terrorism charges last week for taking a…

Ingrid PillerJuly 8, 2015

Language learning

The language cringe of the native speaker

"How bad is your cultural cringe?" (Source: Jenna Guillaume, BuzzFeed) Keith: I’m still really shit at pronouncing Lisa’s surname. With the umlaut o. Hanna: What is Lisa’s surname? (laughter) Keith:…

Hanna TorshJune 10, 2015

“Speak English or Die!”

"Speak English or Die!" Vilification on a Melbourne bus caught on camera About a year ago, a video of a language-related altercation on a Melbourne bus was widely reported in…

Ingrid PillerNovember 19, 2013

Getting published while foreign

Why do female academics publish less than their male peers?

Aboriginal languages matter – but to who?

Discrimination by any other name: Language tests and racist migration policy in Australia

The language cringe of the native speaker

UNTERSTÜTZT VON / SUPPORTED BY

NEWSLETTER SUBSCRIPTION