globalization – Language on the Move

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

Food connections

Afghan-style mantu (Image credit: Wikipedia) One of our family’s favorite dishes is mantu. Mantu are steamed dumplings filled with minced lamb meat and served with a spicy lentil sauce and…

Ingrid PillerJuly 31, 2022

Language and globalization Next Gen Literacies

A journey through Japan’s linguistic peripheries

“The Tosa dialect is fun!!” Notebook with characters representing the grammar of Tosaben, the dialect of the Kōchi prefecture in Shikoku. The cover also features popular landmarks of the prefecture.…

Gianmarco FiorentiniMarch 28, 2022

Language and globalization

Thinking language with chocolate

Easter chocolates in the supermarket (Image credit: Wikimedia) I’ve been thinking a lot about chocolate lately. Maybe because it is Easter and supermarkets in my part of the world…

Ingrid PillerApril 5, 2021

Research reflections

Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2021

2020 has been a strange year for reading: some of us have had a lot more time for reading, others far less. Regardless whether you’ve been able to indulge or…

Language on the MoveDecember 3, 2020

Language in Australia

English language proficiency and national cohesion

Victorian Multicultural Commission, Melbourne (Image credit: Pramuk Perera, via Unsplash) In August, Australia’s Acting Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs, Alan Tudge, announced the extension of the…

Miriam FaineNovember 24, 2020

Covid-19

Covid-19 misinformation between globalization and the reptilian brain

Editor’s note: Covid-19 has exposed fractures in the social and linguistic fabric in many contexts internationally, as we have been documenting in our series of language aspects of the COVID-19 crisis…

Mohamed TaiebineSeptember 26, 2020

Covid-19

What does the post-COVID-19 future hold for Confucius Institutes?

Editor’s note: The COVID-19 pandemic has seen a major shift in global linguistic and cultural flows. In this latest contribution to our series of language aspects of the COVID-19 crisis, Jeffrey…

Jeffrey GilJuly 10, 2020

Covid-19

How to communicate while working from home

Editor’s note: Working from home due to the Covid-19 pandemic has raised new communication challenges for many. In this latest contribution to our series of language aspects of the COVID-19…

Pia TenederoJuly 5, 2020

Language at work

Empowerment of Chinese Muslim women through Arabic?

Muslim women praying in a Minquan mosque While everyone knows that China is now the second largest economy in the world, few people realize that there are still over five…

Yuanmeng MaMay 28, 2020

Language and globalization

Can Chinese Language Learning Reinforce English Supremacy?

Wei Duan introduces herself to a group of Bangladeshi students at Yunnan University As a postgraduate student at Yunnan University in Southwest China, I have been conducting a longitudinal ethnography…

Wei DuanMay 23, 2020

Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice in Arabic

"التنوع اللغوي والعدالة الاجتماعية" - قريبا باللغة العربية حنان بن نافع "اللغة هي أكثر ما يكشف الرجل: تكلم، حتى أراك". يمكن القول بأن هذه المقولة المشهورة للكاتب المسرحي بن…

Hanan Ben NafaFebruary 3, 2020

Research reflections

Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2020

Read a lot, write a lot! Reading enhances your productivity as this selection (!) of recent books authored by Language-on-the-Move team members proves Are you ready for the Language on…

Ingrid PillerJanuary 8, 2020

The Sociolinguistics of Late Modern Publics

Language on the Move is primarily concerned with linguistic resources that, in one way or another, have been or are ‘on the move’ and thus develops a profound understanding of…

Britta SchneiderDecember 9, 2019

Language and globalization

Why being in one place matters for transnational language use

Welcome message to the Aga Khan IV inscribed into the mountain, Pasu, Upper Hunza, Pakistan Transnationalism is a notion that is both presumed to be clear whilst also recognised as…

Brook BolanderOctober 9, 2019

Research reflections

Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2019

Shelves in the Martha-Muchow-Library of Education at Hamburg University After a busy 2018 and a relaxing break, Language on the Move is back for another year of sociolinguistics of intercultural…

Ingrid PillerJanuary 24, 2019

What’s next for the Queen’s English?

Food connections

A journey through Japan’s linguistic peripheries

Thinking language with chocolate

Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2021

English language proficiency and national cohesion

What does the post-COVID-19 future hold for Confucius Institutes?

How to communicate while working from home

Empowerment of Chinese Muslim women through Arabic?

Can Chinese Language Learning Reinforce English Supremacy?

Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2020

Why being in one place matters for transnational language use

Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2019

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