Multilingualism – Page 8 – Language on the Move

Covid-19

Language challenges of Covid-19 are a pressing issue

In mid-March, we issued a call for papers for a special issue of the international sociolinguistics journal Multilingua devoted to “Linguistic diversity and public health: sociolinguistic perspectives on Covid-19” edited…

Ingrid PillerApril 24, 2020

Covid-19

Multilingual resources key to fighting COVID-19

Multilingualism - the use of two or more languages within a polity - is often seen by governments as an impediment, if not a threat, to nation-building and national identity.…

Rizwan AhmadApril 14, 2020

Covid-19

Language lessons of COVID-19 and linguistic disaster preparedness

Li Yuming Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Language Resources and Research Center for Standardized Use of Chinese Language, Beijing Language and Culture University *** Editor’s note: This is a translated…

Language on the MoveMarch 27, 2020

Covid-19

Linguistic diversity and public health: sociolinguistic perspectives on COVID-19

Call for papers for a special issue of Multilingua devoted to “Linguistic diversity and public health: sociolinguistic perspectives on COVID-19” edited by Ingrid Piller, Jie Zhang, and Jia Li. The…

Ingrid PillerMarch 16, 2020

Language and globalization

Preparing Filipino accountants to communicate in global workplaces

How do universities in the Philippines prepare accounting students for communication in global workplaces? Watch this research presentation by Pia Tenedero to find out. This presentation was originally intended for…

Language on the MoveMarch 9, 2020

Covid-19

Coronavirus meets linguistic diversity

Before celebrating China’s Spring Festival, my husband and I were talking about new sources of local economic growth thanks to President Xi Jinping’s visit to Tengchong right after his first…

Li JiaMarch 4, 2020

Covid-19

Fighting the coronavirus in local languages

Disinfectant activities I am writing this from my village in the mountainous Tibetan regions of western Sichuan Province, in China. We have been on lockdown for almost a month, and…

Yu LhaFebruary 17, 2020

Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice in Arabic

"التنوع اللغوي والعدالة الاجتماعية" - قريبا باللغة العربية حنان بن نافع "اللغة هي أكثر ما يكشف الرجل: تكلم، حتى أراك". يمكن القول بأن هذه المقولة المشهورة للكاتب المسرحي بن…

Hanan Ben NafaFebruary 3, 2020

Research reflections

Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2020

Read a lot, write a lot! Reading enhances your productivity as this selection (!) of recent books authored by Language-on-the-Move team members proves Are you ready for the Language on…

Ingrid PillerJanuary 8, 2020

Language in Australia

Holiday treat for language lovers

ABC Radio National has the perfect holiday treat for language lovers: a 5-part podcast series about multilingualism in Australia. In "Tongue-tied and fluent", Masako Fukui and Sheila Ngoc Pham (who…

Ingrid PillerDecember 23, 2019

Research reflections

Where does academic authority come from?

The following is a summary of my recent article "On the conditions of authority in academic publics" in 14 tweets. The paper was published in the Journal of Sociolinguistics; an…

Ingrid PillerDecember 16, 2019

News

Awards for our Higher Degree Research

Professor Simon Handley, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Human Sciences, congratulates our HDR Excellence Award winners The year ends on a final high note for our team with three…

Language on the MoveDecember 13, 2019

The Sociolinguistics of Late Modern Publics

Language on the Move is primarily concerned with linguistic resources that, in one way or another, have been or are ‘on the move’ and thus develops a profound understanding of…

Britta SchneiderDecember 9, 2019

News

Multilingual development over time

Professor Ingrid Gogolin (Image credit: Markus Scholz) ***Update Nov 18, 2019: Due to unforeseen circumstances this lecture has been cancelled.*** On Monday, November 25, we'll host the final Lecture in Linguistic…

Language on the MoveOctober 25, 2019

Language and globalization

Why being in one place matters for transnational language use

Welcome message to the Aga Khan IV inscribed into the mountain, Pasu, Upper Hunza, Pakistan Transnationalism is a notion that is both presumed to be clear whilst also recognised as…

Brook BolanderOctober 9, 2019

Language in education

No Child Left Behind: a study in unintended consequences

President George W. Bush signs the "No Child Left Behind" act in 2002 (Image credit: Wikipedia) In 2001, the United States government responded to the apparent lack of quality education…

Emily McKinneyMay 23, 2019