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Language on the Move 2023

The Language on the Move team hosted members of the Next Generation Literacies network in June Where has 2023 gone?! Unbelievably, it’s time for another annual report. In terms of…
Ingrid Piller
December 27, 2023

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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…
Language and social justice

Are debates over linguistic rights erasing diversity?

A restaurant sign featuring both Tibetan and Chinese, in a village where the Tibetan residents speak Ngandehua, one of Tibet's minority languages (Image: Gerald Roche) As elsewhere in High Asia,…
Language and law

Don’t know what “jurisdictional error” means? Some people’s future depends on it

High Court of Australia (Source: Wikipedia) When people arrive in countries like Australia, seeking to be recognised as refugees and offered protection, it is obviously important that they are able…
Language learning
Japanese lessons learnt from Velcro tape
Language and migration
Feeling weird using your home language?
Language and social justice
Language and social justice
Language and social justice
“Speak English or Die!”
Language learning
Tyranny of Poverty
Language in Australia
Indigenous language denialism in Australia