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Chats in Linguistic Diversity English as a global language

Making Sense of “Bad English”

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick speaks with Dr Elizabeth Peterson about language ideologies and what we think when we hear different varieties of…

Brynn QuickApril 13, 2024

Language and globalization Next Gen Literacies

A journey through Japan’s linguistic peripheries

“The Tosa dialect is fun!!” Notebook with characters representing the grammar of Tosaben, the dialect of the Kōchi prefecture in Shikoku. The cover also features popular landmarks of the prefecture.…

Gianmarco FiorentiniMarch 28, 2022

Next Gen Literacies

?4U: Is Twitter killing the English language?

This story was authored by Antra Kalnins and first published at Macquarie University's The Lighthouse. It is reproduced here with permission. *** If the question in the headline makes you…

Language on the MoveAugust 4, 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

Next Gen Literacies

Literacy – the power code

U.S. Vice President Pence ignores NASA "DO NOT TOUCH" sign. Would anyone else get away with such illiterate behavior? “Literacy” is one of those words that everyone uses as a…

Ingrid PillerAugust 7, 2017

Making Sense of “Bad English”

A journey through Japan’s linguistic peripheries

Debating language standardization

Literacy – the power code

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