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Next Gen Literacies Research reflections

Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2023

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…

Ingrid PillerDecember 26, 2022

Chats in Linguistic Diversity Linguistic landscapes

Language makes the place

Welcome back to another year of research blogging on and about language on the move! We kick off 2022 with a new episode in our Chats in Linguistic Diversity. In…

Ingrid PillerJanuary 17, 2022

Next Gen Literacies Research reflections

Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2022

The Language on the Move Reading Challenge is designed to encourage broad reading in the discipline and beyond, and to make linguistics reading fun. Anyone with an interest in the…

Language on the MoveNovember 30, 2021

Language across three generations of Hani minority women

LI Jia and LI Yongzhen, Yunnan University *** The Hani are one of the officially recognized ethnic minorities in China, and can also be found across the border in Myanmar,…

Li JiaSeptember 16, 2021

Research reflections

Open research in language and society

Emily Farrell, Britta Schneider, and Dorothea Horst, Europa-Universität Viadrina *** The push towards making research free and open to read, in all its parts and forms, from data sets to…

Emily FarrellAugust 10, 2021

Language and law

Language Rights in a Changing China

Editor’s note: The Language on the Move team is delighted to announce the publication of Language Rights in a Changing China, a new book by our member Dr Alexandra Grey. To celebrate…

Language on the MoveJune 1, 2021

Covid-19

Keyboard, pen, paper, syringe: Covid-19 vaccination as multiple literacy events

Vaccination starts with registration and obtaining a date Editor’s note: Last year, here on Language on the Move, we ran a series devoted to language aspects of the COVID-19 crisis,…

Judy KalmanApril 14, 2021

Language and globalization

Thinking language with chocolate

Easter chocolates in the supermarket (Image credit: Wikimedia) I’ve been thinking a lot about chocolate lately. Maybe because it is Easter and supermarkets in my part of the world…

Ingrid PillerApril 5, 2021

News

Designing and using a bilingual writer corpus

Update March 15, 2021: A recording of this lecture is now available on the Language-on-the-Move YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/TKETk-zvqpI *** After a pandemic-induced interruption, our Lectures in Linguistic Diversity are back…

Language on the MoveMarch 1, 2021

Research reflections

Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2021

2020 has been a strange year for reading: some of us have had a lot more time for reading, others far less. Regardless whether you’ve been able to indulge or…

Language on the MoveDecember 3, 2020

Foreign language learning for minority empowerment?

LI Jia and LV Yong, Yunnan University *** Editor’s note: There is a Chinese saying that two heads are better than one (三个臭皮匠赛过一个诸葛亮). This proverb emphasizes both collective wisdom and the…

Li JiaOctober 23, 2020

English as a global language

Minority languages on the rise?

LI Jia and LV Yong, Yunnan University *** Editor’s note: There is a Chinese saying that two heads are better than one (三个臭皮匠赛过一个诸葛亮). This proverb emphasizes both collective wisdom and the…

Li JiaOctober 21, 2020

Power to fangyan!

LI Jia and LV Yong, Yunnan University *** Editor's note: There is a Chinese saying that two heads are better than one (三个臭皮匠赛过一个诸葛亮). This proverb emphasizes both collective wisdom and the…

Li JiaOctober 19, 2020

Language in Australia

Decolonising sociolinguistic research

Celeste Rodriguez Louro and Glenys Collard, University of Western Australia *** The histories and everyday experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia are etched in the landscape,…

Language on the MoveSeptember 14, 2020

Covid-19

Linguistic diversity in a time of crisis

The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed language barriers in societies around the world. It has become obvious that the fact of linguistic diversity had not been incorporated systematically into emergency…

Ingrid PillerSeptember 4, 2020

Language and law

The ethics of collecting data in public space

Editor’s note: We find ourselves in a time of deep global crisis when reflections on research ethics take on new urgency. Language on the Move is delighted to bring to…