Prof Catherine Travis launches "Life in a New Language" at ALS2024 The annual conference of the Australian Linguistic Society (ALS) is a gathering of like-minded academics and presents a wonderful…
Loy LisingDecember 3, 2024
Vaccination starts with registration and obtaining a date Editor’s note: Last year, here on Language on the Move, we ran a series devoted to language aspects of the COVID-19 crisis,…
Judy KalmanApril 14, 2021
Editor’s note: We find ourselves in a time of deep global crisis when reflections on research ethics take on new urgency. Language on the Move is delighted to bring to…
Johanna Ennser-KananenJuly 8, 2020
Editor’s note: We find ourselves in a time of deep global crisis when reflections on research ethics take on new urgency. Language on the Move is delighted to bring to…
Sigurd D'hondtJuly 1, 2020
Editor’s note: We find ourselves in a time of deep global crisis when reflections on research ethics take on new urgency. Language on the Move is delighted to bring to…
Petteri LaihonenJune 18, 2020
How is your Language-on-the-Move Reading Challenge coming along? Another month has passed and you should have ticked off the second book from our list. I read George Steinmetz’ The Devil’s…
Ingrid PillerApril 5, 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
The Language-on-the-Move team is conducting award-winning research The Language on the Move team is delighted to share news of our multiple-award-winning research! 2017 Australian PhD Prize for Innovations in Linguistics The…
Lg_on_the_moveJuly 19, 2017
Alexandra Grey proudly holding the physical product of her PhD research My university will shortly require only a digital copy of each PhD after it has been examined and awarded,…
Alexandra GreyJune 8, 2017
Imagine you live under constant scrutiny in society: you are an Australian woman, you come from a Lebanese-Muslim background, and your hijab identifies you wherever you go. How would you…
Ayah WehbeJune 2, 2017
The Linguistic Ethnography Forum will host a free e-seminar devoted to Ingrid Piller’s new book Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice: An Introduction to Applied Sociolinguistics. Please join us for this…
Lg_on_the_moveMay 4, 2016
Condemned to consume My migration newsfeed in the past few weeks has been dominated by news about the Syrian refugee crisis and the various European and international responses. But there…
Ingrid PillerSeptember 10, 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
Schneider, Britta. 2014. Salsa, Language and Transnationalism. Multilingual Matters. In my post on English in Berlin, I wondered what is required for a language to become ‘local’, and about the…
Britta SchneiderJune 11, 2014
Trilingual signage at the Muse checkpoint on the China-Myanmar border Applied Linguistics at Macquarie University presents Multilingualism at the China-Myanmar border: fieldwork experiences When: Wednesday, March 26, 1:00-2:00pm Where: Macquarie…
Lg_on_the_moveMarch 14, 2014
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