Have you been keeping up with the Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2023? If so, you will be looking forward to our 2024 Reading Challenge; and so here it…
Ingrid PillerDecember 17, 2023
(Image credit: Eurekastreet) Editor's note: This article is based on a presentation delivered as part of a plenary panel, ‘Transdisciplinary Approach to Forensic Linguistics’, at the 16th Biennial Conference of the…
Laura Smith-KhanJuly 3, 2023
Time flies and it’s time for another Reading Challenge. The annual Language on the Move Reading Challenge is designed to encourage broad reading at the intersection of linguistic diversity and…
Ingrid PillerDecember 26, 2022
Prepositions are the unnoticed and underappreciated workhorses of language. They are "grammar words" that indicate relationships. Essentially, their job is to connect other words with bigger and more important meanings.…
Ingrid PillerDecember 12, 2022
When Yu Qi (not her real name) discovered her son was falling behind in school, she had no way of finding out why or how she could support him. After…
Ingrid PillerAugust 26, 2022
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
The South China-Laos-Thailand region with the new railway line (Source: South China Morning Post) Language learning through watching films and playing videogames is a new trend. This kind of informal…
Li JiaDecember 4, 2021
The Language on the Move Reading Challenge is designed to encourage broad reading in the discipline and beyond, and to make linguistics reading fun. Anyone with an interest in the…
Language on the MoveNovember 30, 2021
The heroic EDG esports winning team of League of Legends Chinese esports team Edward Gaming, or EDG for short, has just won the first ever Leagues of Legend (LoL) world…
Li JiaNovember 15, 2021
Australia as a White nation has deep roots: the aim of this 1914 board game was literally "to get the Coloured Men out and the White men in" (Image credit:…
Ingrid PillerNovember 8, 2021
Malinche mediating between the Spanish and the Americans (Source: Lienzo de Tlaxcala, mid 16th c) We live in an age of crisis, as humanity confronts an ever-escalating climate and environmental…
Ingrid PillerOctober 30, 2021
The Sumerian Empire under King Shulgi (2094 to 2046 BCE) (Image Credit: Wikipedia) Do you know in which language the Sumerians started the written chronicle of humanity? It is a…
Ingrid PillerJuly 18, 2021
Remember Joseph speaking to his brothers through an interpreter? Joseph is sold into slavery in Egypt by his jealous brothers Academic interpreting often labors under the assumption that the profession…
Ingrid PillerJune 29, 2021
You can order free hard copies of the booklet Have you received your COVID-19 jab yet? Are you thinking about getting vaccinated? Are you confused by all the conflicting information…
Ingrid PillerMay 20, 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
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