Publishing house De Gruyter Mouton is celebrating their stellar performance in the 2015 Impact Factor ratings by giving you the opportunity to explore De Gruyter’s top 10 social sciences impact…
Lg_on_the_moveJuly 22, 2016
Ingrid Piller, Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice, Oxford University Press, March 2016 Oxford University Press has just released Ingrid Piller’s new book Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice: An Introduction to…
Lg_on_the_moveMarch 23, 2016
Alex spent a stimulating summer centered on child multilingualism away from the leafy Macquarie campus Macquarie University campus seemed to sleep in the summer sun once the semester ended last…
Alexandra GreyFebruary 16, 2016
Language and migration: the workshop presenters and organizers On December 11th, Ingrid Piller (Macquarie University) and Donna Butorac (Curtin University), organised a workshop on Language and Migration for the 2015…
Donna ButoracFebruary 3, 2016
January 26, Australia Day: whether you are celebrating depends on your perspective (Source: news.com.au) Here in Australia we celebrated our national holiday yesterday. Australia Day marks the end of the…
Ingrid PillerJanuary 27, 2016
Studying English (©Sadami Konchi) The program for the “Language and Migration” workshop in Parramatta on Friday, December 11, 2015 is now available. The workshop is part of the 46th annual…
Lg_on_the_moveNovember 4, 2015
Churchill Square Shopping Mall, Brighton, UK (Source: Wikipedia) In a shopping mall in the city of Brighton, UK, a tourist was arrested on terrorism charges last week for taking a…
Ingrid PillerJuly 8, 2015
Linguistic diversity is valued in this school (Photo Courtesy of Angela Turzynski-Azimi) The 46th annual conference of the Australian Linguistic Society (ALS) is being hosted by the University of Western Sydney…
Lg_on_the_moveJune 24, 2015
In my own research, I have frequently run into difficulty in talking about a ‘native speaker’. What criteria must be met to be ‘native’? How can I, as a researcher,…
Lauren WagnerFebruary 11, 2015
Annastacia Palaszczuk and members of her family (Source: Couriermail) Would Kirk Douglas be a Hollywood legend if he had kept his birth name Issur Danielovitch? Would Bob Dylan have achieved…
Ingrid PillerFebruary 4, 2015
A locutorio shop front in Barcelona (Source: El Periodico) There is now a well-established body of work exploring the language work provided by service workers in call centres and tourist…
Ingrid PillerSeptember 22, 2014
Linguistic diversity in Sydney (Source: Sydney Morning Herald) The media in Anglophone countries regularly engage in a bit of a bragfest about the linguistic diversity of their cities. In Sydney,…
Ingrid PillerAugust 20, 2014
German International School Sydney It is one of the great narratives of our time that the market will fix everything. In education this means that parental choice is assumed to…
Ingrid PillerJuly 31, 2014
Auburn parking ticket (left: quadrilingual on back; right: city logo on front) In Australia with its persistent monolingual mindset coming across any kind of official institutional multilingual communication always feels…
Ingrid PillerJuly 7, 2014
Schneider, Britta. 2014. Salsa, Language and Transnationalism. Multilingual Matters. In my post on English in Berlin, I wondered what is required for a language to become ‘local’, and about the…
Britta SchneiderJune 11, 2014
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