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Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice in Persian

The translator of the Persian version of Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice, Dr Saeed Rezaei The Persian translation of Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice (2016, Oxford University Press) has just…

Ingrid PillerMay 15, 2019

News

Lectures in Linguistic Diversity 2019, Term 1

Vietnamese is a major community language in Australia. Replica of the Ngoc Lu Drum at Saigon Place, Bankstown, Sydney The Linguistics Department at Macquarie University is hosting a lecture series…

Language on the MoveApril 23, 2019

News

Three new Language-on-the-Move PhDs

Dr Shiva Motaghi-Tabari, Dr Vera Williams Tetteh, Dr Loy Lising, Prof Ingrid Piller, Dr Laura Smith-Khan, Dr Gegentuul Hongye Bai, Dr Hanna Torsh, Dr Jinhyun Cho, Dr Alexandra Grey (ltr)…

Language on the MoveApril 17, 2019

Language and migration

Asylum interviews as linguistic conflict zones

Professor Katrijn Maryns explains the linguistic transformations that turn "undocumented migrants" into "genuine" or "bogus refugees" Language is the inescapable medium through which we live our lives. Access to social…

Ingrid PillerApril 8, 2019

News

Language and vulnerability

Language in asylum determinations (Image Credit: moz.de) We’ll be kicking off the 2019 Lectures in Linguistic Diversity series at Macquarie University with a guest lecture by Katrijn Maryns, Ghent University,…

Language on the MoveMarch 18, 2019

Language politics

Counting the uncountable: linguistic diversity in Nepal

Students in a Tibetan-medium school in Kathmandu study for their exams. By knowing the number and age of speakers of a particular language, policy makers can better plan for their…

Naomi FillmoreFebruary 26, 2019

Intercultural communication

Eating, othering and bonding

Yucky worms or yummy treats? When I arrived in the UK from Poland in 2004, I did not know that prawns even existed. During our first dubious encounter, I categorized…

Marta Wilczek-WatsonFebruary 6, 2019

Research reflections

Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2019

Shelves in the Martha-Muchow-Library of Education at Hamburg University After a busy 2018 and a relaxing break, Language on the Move is back for another year of sociolinguistics of intercultural…

Ingrid PillerJanuary 24, 2019

News

Anneliese Maier Research Awards 2018

The 2018 Anneliese Maier Research Award Recipients (Image: Humboldt-Stiftung/Jens Jeske) The awards ceremony and research symposium for the Anneliese Maier Research Awards took place in Berlin from September 11 to…

Ingrid PillerSeptember 16, 2018

Next Gen Literacies

Why are you not citing any African female expert?

Sociolinguistics needs to center Africa Minority language maintenance and revitalization is a sub-discipline of sociolinguistics that I mostly stay away from. My discomfort with most of the research in that…

Ingrid PillerMay 3, 2018

Language and globalization

Globalization between crime and piety

How is your Language-on-the-Move Reading Challenge coming along? One month has gone by and you should have ticked off at least one book from our list. I started with an…

Ingrid PillerMarch 1, 2018

Intercultural communication

PhD Scholarship in Intercultural Communication

Top 5 languages spoken in Australia in 2016 (Source: ABS) The Language-on-the-Move team is getting ready to launch a new research project investigating everyday intercultural communication in multilingual and multicultural…

Ingrid PillerFebruary 12, 2018

Next Gen Literacies

Debating language standardization

Late last year I attended the conference “Language Standardization and Linguistic Variation in Asia from Sociolinguistic Perspectives 社会语言学视角下的亚洲语言变异与标准化国际学术研讨会” at the University of Nottingham-Ningbo, China (UNNC). It was hosted by UNNC’s…

Alexandra GreyFebruary 6, 2018

Research reflections

Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2018

Language on the Move is back for another year and we’ll start the excitement with a reading challenge. One important piece of advice for all (aspiring) academics is to “Read,…

Ingrid PillerJanuary 29, 2018

News

Language on the Move 2017

Language on the Move is taking a break. Before we go, we’d like to wish all our readers peaceful holidays and a happy, healthy and prosperous 2018! We will be back…

Lg_on_the_moveDecember 16, 2017

Language and globalization

From Minority Languages to Minoritized Languages

The national language is the mother tongue of the vast majority of citizens in most European states (Source: Josu Amezaga, MQ Lecture, 22-11-2017) Last week, Professor Josu Amezaga from the…

Pia TenederoNovember 30, 2017

Lectures in Linguistic Diversity 2019, Term 1

Three new Language-on-the-Move PhDs

Asylum interviews as linguistic conflict zones

Language and vulnerability

Counting the uncountable: linguistic diversity in Nepal

Eating, othering and bonding

Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2019

Anneliese Maier Research Awards 2018

Why are you not citing any African female expert?

Globalization between crime and piety

Debating language standardization

Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2018

Language on the Move 2017

From Minority Languages to Minoritized Languages

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