(Image credit: RACGP) The global impact of the coronavirus pandemic has reshaped societies worldwide, altering human interactions and perceptions of the world and brought unprecedented challenges, not only in terms…
Christine MunnJuly 26, 2024
The Linguistic Justice Society has kindly recorded and uploaded my webinar from July 2023, ‘Linguistic Inclusion and Good Governance in Multilingual Australia'. The webinar draws together three studies, two with…
Alexandra GreySeptember 1, 2023
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
Editor’s note: The language challenges of the COVID-19 crisis have held much of our attention this year. Here on Language on the Move, we have been running a series devoted to language…
Monica NeveDecember 14, 2020
Editor’s note: The language challenges of the COVID-19 crisis have held much of our attention this year. Here on Language on the Move, we have been running a series devoted to language…
Yudha HidayatDecember 9, 2020
Editor’s note: The language challenges of the COVID-19 crisis have held much of our attention this year. Here on Language on the Move, we have been running a series devoted to language…
Alejandra Hermoza CaveroDecember 4, 2020
Editor’s note: The Covid-19 crisis has exposed fractures in the social and linguistic fabric in many contexts internationally, as we have been documenting in our series of language aspects of the…
Language on the MoveOctober 13, 2020
Martha Sif Karrebæk and Solvej Helleshøj Sørensen, University of Copenhagen *** Editor’s note: Covid-19 has exposed fractures in the social and linguistic fabric in many contexts internationally, as we have…
Language on the MoveSeptember 9, 2020
Readability scores of the two selected public service information texts by the NSW Government This morning I googled “nsw corona/covid restrictions”. The top hits all refer to NSW Government websites,…
Ingrid PillerSeptember 1, 2020
Editor’s note: The Covid-19 pandemic has led to a renewed focus on linguistic diversity and the way it intersects with social inclusion. In this latest contribution to our series of language…
Anna WierzbickaJuly 28, 2020
Editor’s note: The Covid-19 pandemic has led to a renewed focus on linguistic diversity and the way it intersects with social inclusion. In this latest contribution to our series of language…
Sarah HopkynsJuly 17, 2020
Image 1: Infographic in Tagalog on ways to prevent the spread of COVID-19 infection Editor’s note: Timely and equitable access to information for linguistically diverse populations continues to be a…
Loy LisingJuly 13, 2020
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
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
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
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