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Covid-19

Why it’s important to use Indigenous languages in health communication

Editor’s note: The Covid-19 pandemic has brought the persistent health disadvantage of Indigenous populations into focus, as well as the exclusion of Indigenous languages from public health communication. In this…

Gregory Haimovich and Herlinda Márquez MoraJune 9, 2020

Covid-19

How to improve Australia’s public health messaging about Covid-19

Exterior of a pub at an intersection in the shopping hub of Burwood, a highly diverse suburb of Sydney Editor’s note: Do public health messages about the Covid-19 pandemic match…

Alexandra GreyJune 1, 2020

Covid-19

Signs of the times: Small media during Covid-19 in Mexico City

Editor’s note: In this latest contribution to our series of language aspects of the COVID-19 crisis, Judy Kalman takes us on a tour of the Covid-19 linguistic landscape of Mexico City.…

Judy KalmanMay 14, 2020

Language in Australia

Australians speaking Asian

“Fremdschämen” is a German word that means being embarrassed on behalf of someone else. In Australia, this feeling is frequently induced by the behavior of our politicians. Yesterday, public embarrassment…

Ingrid PillerApril 14, 2019

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

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

Money makes the world go round

The Muslim holy month of Ramadan has just come to an end. Like Christmas, Diwali or a wedding, the closing holiday, Eid al-Fitr, constitutes a massive occasion for gift-giving. In…

Ingrid PillerJune 27, 2017

Language politics

How do language rights affect minority languages in China?

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

Intercultural communication

Translation challenges of Kriol signage in the Top End

Supposedly Kriol signage at Rapid Creek, Darwin When I shared this Kriol sign on Facebook as an example of a bad Kriol translation, a first language Kriol speaker commented: Im…

Greg DicksonJune 30, 2016

Linguistic landscapes

Strolling in Barcelona with Sanskrit and Devanāgarī

Tapas bar Samsara Strolling in Barcelona’s city center reveals an astounding variety of spoken languages: there are the languages used by the throngs of visitors coming from literally everywhere, and…

Anand Torrents AlcarazNovember 11, 2015

Linguistic landscapes

Multilingual mismatch

Auburn parking ticket (left: quadrilingual on back; right: city logo on front) In Australia with its persistent monolingual mindset coming across any kind of official institutional multilingual communication always feels…

Ingrid PillerJuly 7, 2014

News

Multilingualism at the China-Myanmar border

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

“Speak English or Die!”

"Speak English or Die!" Vilification on a Melbourne bus caught on camera About a year ago, a video of a language-related altercation on a Melbourne bus was widely reported in…

Ingrid PillerNovember 19, 2013

Language learning

Are Finns saying no to Swedish?

Bilingual Swedish-Finnish monument in Helsinki commenmorating globally beloved children's author Tove Jansson, a Swedish-speaking Finn (Source: vanderkrogt.net) 50,000 people have signed a petition against mandatory Swedish classes in Finnish schools,…

Dave SayersAugust 26, 2013

Why it’s important to use Indigenous languages in health communication

How to improve Australia’s public health messaging about Covid-19

Signs of the times: Small media during Covid-19 in Mexico City

Australians speaking Asian

Do you ever wear language?

More on banal cosmopolitanism

Banal cosmopolitanism

Money makes the world go round

How do language rights affect minority languages in China?

Translation challenges of Kriol signage in the Top End

Strolling in Barcelona with Sanskrit and Devanāgarī

Multilingual mismatch

Multilingualism at the China-Myanmar border

Are Finns saying no to Swedish?

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