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Language and globalization

Dreams vs. realities in English

We all have childhood dreams. Mine was to become a writer, which, unfortunately, was not well received by my parents because it is a “hungry” job. Due to the absence…
Language and law

Linguistic Diversity as a Challenge for Legal Policy

(Image credit: Tingey Injury Law Firm, via Unsplash) The Griffith Law Review has just published a thematic issue on ‘Linguistic diversity as a challenge to legal policy’, which Laura Smith-Khan…
Language learning

Tyranny of Poverty

Pakistan Swat Valley 2009 Ingrid briefly mentioned Zubeida Mustafa’s new book Tyranny of Language in Education: The Problem and its solution recently. Since then, we’ve had numerous enquiries about the…
Language in Australia
Monolingual mindset in the lucky country
Intercultural communication
Japanese on the Move
Language and migration
Discourses of Integration: Language, Skills, and the Politics of Difference
Language and social justice
Many tongues instead of one!
Language and law
The ethics of collecting data in public space
English as a global language
Minority languages on the rise?