Editor's note: UNESCO has declared December 18 as World Arabic Language Day. Arabic is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world. It has around 400 million speakers…
***This page was updated on Dec 05, 2023. Presentation abstracts are now available at the bottom of this page.*** Join us on Thursday, December 14, at Macquarie University for a…
Bilingual sign in Sydney (photo by Alexandra Grey) Readers are warmly invited to the next webinar of the series of webinars of the Linguistic Justice Society (LJS): When: Friday 28…
(Image credit: Mana Akbarzadegan via Unsplash) Have you noticed the persistent divide between domestic and international students at Australian universities? Do you worry how the English-monolingual habitus of our highly…
Anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon interviewing unidentified Yanomami people Editor's note: How do researchers in anthropology and sociology deal with linguistic diversity? Do they learn the language(s) of the people they work…
An area under "total lockdown" (Image credit: rappler.com) Lockdowns everywhere The lockdown discourse has become ubiquitous, especially in current affairs and social media. In fact, ‘lockdown’ and ‘quarantine’ have been…
The rise of China has been one of the defining characteristics of the early 21st century. The increase in China’s economic, geopolitical, and military clout has been accompanied by a…
Editor’s note: The Language on the Move team is delighted to announce the publication of Language Rights in a Changing China, a new book by our member Dr Alexandra Grey. To celebrate…
Editor's note: As the world anxiously anticipates the outcome of the US presidential election next week - and the consequences it will have for global politics - we've asked the…
(Image credit: Farooqi & Aftab, 2018) Editor's note: As Confucius Institutes are closing in western countries, as Jeffrey Gil analysed recently, Chinese language learning continues to expand across the global…
Editor’s note: The COVID-19 pandemic has seen a major shift in global linguistic and cultural flows. In this latest contribution to our series of language aspects of the COVID-19 crisis, Jeffrey…
Exterior of a pub at an intersection in the shopping hub of Burwood, a highly diverse suburb of Sydney Editor’s note: Do public health messages about the Covid-19 pandemic match…
This article was originally published in the digital pamphlet Perspectives on the Pandemic: International Social Science Thought Leaders Reflect on Covid-19 produced by de Gruyter Social Sciences. *** The Covid-19…
In mid-March, we issued a call for papers for a special issue of the international sociolinguistics journal Multilingua devoted to “Linguistic diversity and public health: sociolinguistic perspectives on Covid-19” edited…
Welcome message to the Aga Khan IV inscribed into the mountain, Pasu, Upper Hunza, Pakistan Transnationalism is a notion that is both presumed to be clear whilst also recognised as…
Building the Danish boar fence (Image credit: NDR) Fences are popular these days: not only in the US with its border-wall-to-Mexico saga but also in Denmark, which recently started to…