English as a lingua franca – Language on the Move

Chats in Linguistic Diversity Language and migration

Linguistic diversity as a bureaucratic challenge

How do street-level bureaucrats in Austria’s public service deal with linguistic diversity? In this episode of the Language on the Move podcast, I speak with Dr Clara Holzinger (University of Vienna)…

Ingrid PillerNovember 17, 2024

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

English as a global language Language and globalization

What’s next for the Queen’s English?

Official coronation portrait (Image credit: Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2015) The Queen and the English language are both unique within their categories. The Queen enjoyed special…

Ingrid PillerSeptember 12, 2022

Intercultural communication Next Gen Literacies

Global Coalition for Language Rights

This post has been authored by Gerald Roche and Claire French *** Adéṣínà Ayẹni to Gerald Roche (2 Feb 2022): I will surely love to be a part of the…

Gerald RocheApril 29, 2022

Language politics

Brexit and the politics of English

Editor's note: As the world anxiously anticipates the outcome of the US presidential election next week - and the consequences it will have for global politics - we've asked the…

Robert PhillipsonOctober 29, 2020

English as a global language

Reading to learn in another language

A non-fluent Latin reader painstakingly worked her way through this text “Man is an obligate aerobe”, I recently read in a medicine book for general readers (Nuland, 1993). The phrase…

Ingrid PillerAugust 11, 2019

Language and migration

Asylum interviews as linguistic conflict zones

Professor Katrijn Maryns explains the linguistic transformations that turn "undocumented migrants" into "genuine" or "bogus refugees" Language is the inescapable medium through which we live our lives. Access to social…

Ingrid PillerApril 8, 2019

Intercultural communication

Intercultural communication at work: Poles in China

Poland in China (Artwork by the author) Intercultural communication at work in multinational companies (MNCs) is increasingly common. Workplace communication in MNCs can be highly complex, as is the case…

Michał WilczewskiFebruary 16, 2019