In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah speaks with Dr. Jia Li, Professor of Applied Sociolinguistics at Yunnan University, China. Tazin and Jia discuss crisis…
Book reading is an important part of individual and social wellbeing (Image copyright: Sadami Konchi) Each year, I survey my Literacies students about their reading and writing activities. Over the…
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Hannah White, a Postdoc researcher at Macquarie University in the Department of Linguistics. She completed…
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…
In this podcast episode, I speak with Dr Anthea Vogl about her new book, Judging Refugees: Narrative and Oral Testimony in Refugee Status Determination. The conversation introduces listeners to the…
Editor's note: The Australian linguistics community mourns the recent passing of pioneering sociolinguist Barbara Horvath. To honor her memory, we are here publishing the lightly edited transcript of an oral…
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick speaks with best-selling author and linguist Gretchen McCulloch about her 2019 New York Times bestselling book Because Internet:…
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…
Have you been keeping up with the Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2023? If so, you will be looking forward to our 2024 Reading Challenge; and so here it…
Time flies and it’s time for another Reading Challenge. The annual Language on the Move Reading Challenge is designed to encourage broad reading at the intersection of linguistic diversity and…