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Life in a New Language at ALS2024

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

Language politics Next Gen Literacies

Is it ok for linguists to hate new words?

Linguists are famously very cool with words changing their meaning, new words arising, and basically language just doing whatever the hell it wants, irregardless (heh) of what the language pedants…

Dave SayersMay 15, 2024

Chats in Linguistic Diversity Research reflections

History of Modern Linguistics

In Episode 12 of the Language on the Move Podcast, I speak with James McElvenny about his new book History of Modern Linguistics. This book offers a highly readable, concise…

Ingrid PillerApril 10, 2024

Language and migration

Piller, I. (Ed.) (2016) Language and Migration. London: Routledge. Humans are a migratory species. Although in modern society the dominant imagery we have created about ourselves is that it is…

Ingrid PillerSeptember 15, 2016

Research reflections

Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) Procrastination is a fact of academic life, particularly during the PhD period, as every academic supervisor knows. However, judging from ever-increasing institutional efforts to control procrastination…

Ingrid PillerOctober 30, 2013

Research reflections

The promise of interdisciplinarity

Professor Bob Hodge When I was a PhD student, I read two books in Discourse Analysis, which were to become fundamental to my understanding of the field, namely Social Semiotics…

Ingrid PillerJune 14, 2012

Life in a New Language at ALS2024

Is it ok for linguists to hate new words?

History of Modern Linguistics

Language and migration

Saussure, the procrastinator

The promise of interdisciplinarity

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