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Why are you not citing any African female expert?

Sociolinguistics needs to center Africa Minority language maintenance and revitalization is a sub-discipline of sociolinguistics that I mostly stay away from. My discomfort with most of the research in that…

Ingrid PillerMay 3, 2018

Language and globalization

Is English stealing the home of Mongolian?

The website of Hohhot Baita International Airport provides information in Chinese and English but not in Mongolian Update, Sept 16, 2020: A Mongolian translation of this blog post is now…

Gegentuul BaioudApril 18, 2018

Language and globalization

Do you ever wear language?

"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

Language and globalization

From oil spill to Brexit

The oil slick as seen from space (Source: Wikipedia) The British decision to exit the European Union (EU) in 2016 came as a surprise to many. In the lead up…

Rahel CramerMarch 14, 2018

Language and globalization

Globalization between crime and piety

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

News

Ingrid Piller receives 2018 Anneliese Maier Research Award

The award will enable language and education researchers from Hamburg and Macquarie Universities to deepen their collaboration Ingrid Piller is one of eight recipients of a 2018 Anneliese Maier Research…

Lg_on_the_moveJanuary 31, 2018

Research reflections

Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2018

Language on the Move is back for another year and we’ll start the excitement with a reading challenge. One important piece of advice for all (aspiring) academics is to “Read,…

Ingrid PillerJanuary 29, 2018

News

Language on the Move 2017

Language on the Move is taking a break. Before we go, we’d like to wish all our readers peaceful holidays and a happy, healthy and prosperous 2018! We will be back…

Lg_on_the_moveDecember 16, 2017

Language and globalization

From Minority Languages to Minoritized Languages

The national language is the mother tongue of the vast majority of citizens in most European states (Source: Josu Amezaga, MQ Lecture, 22-11-2017) Last week, Professor Josu Amezaga from the…

Pia TenederoNovember 30, 2017

Language and globalization

More on banal cosmopolitanism

My banal cosmopolitan fridge magnets In response to my post about the banal cosmopolitanism of multilingual welcome signs last week, a number of people suggested that they quite enjoy finding…

Ingrid PillerNovember 6, 2017

Language and globalization

Banal cosmopolitanism

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

Language and globalization

Becoming Diasporically Moroccan

On the ferry from Spain to Morocco My recent book Becoming Diasporically Moroccan explores how next-generations after migration use communicative resources to feel ‘at home’ in their ancestral homeland. By…

Lauren WagnerOctober 26, 2017

Language and globalization

Anatomy of language shaming

This latest exploration in language shaming examines a language shame campaign on the internet and shows how it is used as a tool to suppress political debate and women’s public…

Ingrid PillerOctober 16, 2017

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

Language in education

Educating Burmese migrant students in China

Dr Li Jia (4th from right) with her supervisor, Professor Ingrid Piller, and members of the Language-on-the-Move team The Language on the Move team is proud to celebrate another PhD…

Lg_on_the_moveSeptember 22, 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

Why are you not citing any African female expert?

Do you ever wear language?

From oil spill to Brexit

Globalization between crime and piety

Ingrid Piller receives 2018 Anneliese Maier Research Award

Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2018

Language on the Move 2017

From Minority Languages to Minoritized Languages

More on banal cosmopolitanism

Banal cosmopolitanism

Becoming Diasporically Moroccan

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