multilingual writers – Language on the Move

Chats in Linguistic Diversity Multilingual histories

Lies we tell ourselves about multilingualism

Just before the holidays, Professor Aneta Pavlenko and I chatted about Aneta’s new book Multilingualism and History. We talked about amnesia and ignorance pacts in contemporary sociolinguistics, ghost signs that point to dark…

Ingrid PillerJanuary 3, 2024

Next Gen Literacies Research reflections

Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2024

Have you been keeping up with the Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2023? If so, you will be looking forward to our 2024 Reading Challenge; and so here it…

Ingrid PillerDecember 17, 2023

Next Gen Literacies

We, heirs of the multilingual Sumerians

The Sumerian Empire under King Shulgi (2094 to 2046 BCE) (Image Credit: Wikipedia) Do you know in which language the Sumerians started the written chronicle of humanity? It is a…

Ingrid PillerJuly 18, 2021

Research reflections

Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2021

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

Intercultural communication

Why the linguist needs the historian

Diagram of the ‘radial definition routes’ of Panoptic Conjugation (Ogden 1930: 12) A fascinating turn in recent Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) scholarship is the development of 'Minimal English', an international…

James McElvennyAugust 28, 2020

Research reflections

Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2020

Read a lot, write a lot! Reading enhances your productivity as this selection (!) of recent books authored by Language-on-the-Move team members proves Are you ready for the Language on…

Ingrid PillerJanuary 8, 2020

Research reflections

Where does academic authority come from?

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

Research reflections

In interview: Alex Grey with Melanie Fernando

Dr Alex Grey and Melanie Fernando in conversation One of the main reasons why Language on the Move exists is to mentor the next generation of researchers in the sociolinguistics…

Language on the MoveMay 6, 2019

Research reflections

Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2019

Shelves in the Martha-Muchow-Library of Education at Hamburg University After a busy 2018 and a relaxing break, Language on the Move is back for another year of sociolinguistics of intercultural…

Ingrid PillerJanuary 24, 2019

Next Gen Literacies

Getting published while foreign

Unpublished manuscripts from the estate of Hans Natonek (Source: Arts in exile) On International Women’s Day I explored why female academics publish less than their male peers. Academic journal submissions…

Ingrid PillerMarch 26, 2018

Multilingual histories

Serendipity, Cyberspace, and the Tactility of Documents

Front of postcard sent by Private Jacob Isak Sicherman on 1 June 1916 Remember library stacks? Browsing among books? Serendipitously finding on a nearby shelf what you didn’t know you…

Carol SichermanJuly 28, 2016

Multilingual histories

Herder: an explainer for linguists

Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) Some contemporary sociolinguists love to hate an 18th century educator, philosopher, theologian, translator and general polymath by the name of Herder. Hardly a week goes by…

Ingrid PillerMarch 4, 2016

Multilingual histories

Cultural brokering

Rashid al-Din Monument in Soltaniyeh, Iran (Source: Wikipedia) Recently, I signed a contract for a revised second edition of my 2011 book Intercultural Communication: A Critical Introduction to be published…

Ingrid PillerNovember 25, 2015

Next Gen Literacies

Malay Sketches

Editor's note: We are delighted to bring to our readers today another outstanding experience of bilingual creativity, the poem Malay Sketches by Sydney author Aisyah Shah Idil, a runner up of the…

Aisyah Shah IdilOctober 21, 2015

Language learning

On learning languages and the gaining of wisdom

The National Institute of the English Language in Tehran has used the slogan "A new language is a new life" for more than 50 years I’m preparing my lecture on…

Ingrid PillerJanuary 13, 2014

Research reflections

Saussure, the procrastinator

Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) Procrastination is a fact of academic life, particularly during the PhD period, as every academic supervisor knows. However, judging from ever-increasing institutional efforts to control procrastination…

Ingrid PillerOctober 30, 2013

Lies we tell ourselves about multilingualism

Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2024

We, heirs of the multilingual Sumerians

Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2021

Why the linguist needs the historian

Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2020

Where does academic authority come from?

In interview: Alex Grey with Melanie Fernando

Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2019

Getting published while foreign

Herder: an explainer for linguists

Cultural brokering

Malay Sketches

On learning languages and the gaining of wisdom

Saussure, the procrastinator

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