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Revaluing minority languages

The 16th International Conference on Minority Languages (ICML XVI) will be held at University of Jyväskylä Language Campus The 16th International Conference on Minority Languages (ICML XVI) and the 34th Summer School and Conference…

Lg_on_the_moveDecember 1, 2016

Intercultural communication

Do bilinguals express different emotions in different languages?

Does this delicious Libyan Herb Bread taste even yummier in English? Is it the case that bilinguals have dual identities or divided loyalties where they associate each aspect of their…

Hanan Ben NafaOctober 18, 2016

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Language on the Move is turning seven! Happy anniversary and to the next seven years! Language on the Move first went live today seven years ago, on October 04, 2009. We…

Lg_on_the_moveOctober 4, 2016

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

Why a multilingual social imagination matters

Last week I was fortunate to be able to attend the 2016 annual conference of the British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL) at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge. In my…

Ingrid PillerSeptember 6, 2016

Language politics

How to Study Language and Social Relations in Times of Global Mobility

The Sociolinguistic Economy of Berlin Imagine you want to study language diversity as a phenomenon of contemporary society. Where do you start? You can, for example, ask teachers to count…

Britta SchneiderAugust 22, 2016

How language can entrench disadvantage

The New Books Network has just published an interview with Ingrid Piller about her new book Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice. The host of the show, Chris Cummins, sums up the…

Lg_on_the_moveAugust 4, 2016

Multilingual histories

Serendipity, Cyberspace, and the Tactility of Documents

Front of postcard sent by Private Jacob Isak Sicherman on 1 June 1916 Remember library stacks? Browsing among books? Serendipitously finding on a nearby shelf what you didn’t know you…

Carol SichermanJuly 28, 2016

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Publishing house De Gruyter Mouton is celebrating their stellar performance in the 2015 Impact Factor ratings by giving you the opportunity to explore De Gruyter’s top 10 social sciences impact…

Lg_on_the_moveJuly 22, 2016

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Language at work

Would you mind if your child wanted to become an interpreter?

Images of glamorous interpreters in the recent Chinese movie “Les Interprètes” (Source: dramafever.com) I recently volunteered to give a presentation on the profession of translation and interpreting as a parent…

Jinhyun ChoJuly 17, 2016

Language in education

Do monolingual teachers produce a Golem effect in multilingual students?

Teacher expectations produce self-fulfilling prophecies in student performance: high teacher expectations result in students’ higher academic performance and low teacher expectations result in students’ lower academic performance. The positive effect…

Ingrid PillerMay 11, 2016

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Invitation to e-seminar “Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice”

The Linguistic Ethnography Forum will host a free e-seminar devoted to Ingrid Piller’s new book Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice: An Introduction to Applied Sociolinguistics. Please join us for this…

Lg_on_the_moveMay 4, 2016

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Linguistic diversity and social justice out now

Ingrid Piller, Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice, Oxford University Press, March 2016 Oxford University Press has just released Ingrid Piller’s new book Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice: An Introduction to…

Lg_on_the_moveMarch 23, 2016

Language in education

Child language brokering

Alex spent a stimulating summer centered on child multilingualism away from the leafy Macquarie campus Macquarie University campus seemed to sleep in the summer sun once the semester ended last…

Alexandra GreyFebruary 16, 2016

Intercultural communication

Ways of seeing

January 26, Australia Day: whether you are celebrating depends on your perspective (Source: news.com.au) Here in Australia we celebrated our national holiday yesterday. Australia Day marks the end of the…

Ingrid PillerJanuary 27, 2016

Multilingual histories

Cultural brokering

Rashid al-Din Monument in Soltaniyeh, Iran (Source: Wikipedia) Recently, I signed a contract for a revised second edition of my 2011 book Intercultural Communication: A Critical Introduction to be published…

Ingrid PillerNovember 25, 2015

Revaluing minority languages

Do bilinguals express different emotions in different languages?

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Language and migration

How to Study Language and Social Relations in Times of Global Mobility

Download your ten favorite Multilingua articles for free!

Would you mind if your child wanted to become an interpreter?

Do monolingual teachers produce a Golem effect in multilingual students?

Child language brokering

Ways of seeing

Cultural brokering

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