During the COVID-19 pandemic, countries around the world have responded in varying ways to curb the spread of the disease by implementing different measures to restrict mobility among the population.…
Paolo Niño ValdezJune 7, 2021
Editor’s note: The language challenges of the COVID-19 crisis have held much of our attention this year. Here on Language on the Move, we have been running a series devoted to language…
Kinza Afraz AbbasiDecember 11, 2020
Editor’s note: The language challenges of the COVID-19 crisis have held much of our attention this year. Here on Language on the Move, we have been running a series devoted to language…
Yudha HidayatDecember 9, 2020
Editor’s note: The language challenges of the COVID-19 crisis have held much of our attention this year. Here on Language on the Move, we have been running a series devoted to language…
Alejandra Hermoza CaveroDecember 4, 2020
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
A herder guards the Mongolian script (Image credit: Ayin) As the danger of life-threatening Covid-19 has subsided, Mongols in Inner Mongolia, a region of northern China, have faced a new…
Gegentuul BaioudAugust 30, 2020
The following is a summary of my recent article "On the conditions of authority in academic publics" in 14 tweets. The paper was published in the Journal of Sociolinguistics; an…
Ingrid PillerDecember 16, 2019
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
Multilingual advice provided by the Administrate Review Tribunal Countries in the Global North have developed increasingly sophisticated and complex processes to assess the claims of people seeking asylum. One key…
Laura Smith-KhanNovember 14, 2017
King Sejong the Great (1397-1450) (Image source: Wikipedia) Today, South Koreans celebrate Hangul Day. Hangul Day is a national holiday to celebrate the Korean script. I am not aware of…
Ingrid PillerOctober 9, 2017
At the recent 16th International Conference on Minority Languages at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, I delivered a keynote lecture about “language shaming”. By “language shaming”, I mean (social) media…
Ingrid PillerSeptember 28, 2017
Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice has won the 2017 annual book prize of the British Association of Applied Linguistics. Although I wasn’t able to attend the conference and award ceremony…
Ingrid PillerSeptember 4, 2017
When people arrive in countries of the global north to seek asylum, they often bring with them little more than their stories of persecution. As receiving countries develop increasingly restrictive…
Laura Smith-KhanJune 14, 2017
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
Children of migrant cotton field workers from Oklahoma (Source: Library of Congress) I’ve just come across a fascinating article about the schooling of migrant children during the Great Depression era…
Ingrid PillerApril 8, 2015
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