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Language Rights Defenders Award

Tove Skutnabb-Kangas (1940-2023) The Global Coalition for Language Rights is pleased to announce the first annual Language Rights Defenders Award. This award aims to recognize and honor individuals who demonstrate…
Gerald Roche
March 28, 2024

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Language and social justice

How language can entrench disadvantage

The New Books Network has just published an interview with Ingrid Piller about her new book Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice.  The host of the show, Chris Cummins, sums up the…
Language and globalization

放过中式英语吧!

Multilingual sign in Namtso (Image Credit: Wikipedia) Chinese version of my recent blog post about Chinglish Translated by Zhang Jie (张洁); 译文:张洁 设想某日《纽约时报》向读者征集最喜爱的金发女郎笑话或者有色人种所做的最滑稽的事。再设想该活动开展后迅速充斥了整个网络空间,任何对性别或种族问题有所兴趣的人都在博客、facebook和微博上热烈讨论着,甚至连从事性别和种族研究的学者们也开始群情激昂地对金发女郎或有色人种的荒谬行径提供种种分析。 (more…)
Multilingual histories

Yiman does not have a word for ‘massacre’

Memorial to Yiman leader Bilba at Wallumbilla (Source: Goodbye Bussamarai) On October 27, 1857, a group of Aboriginal Australians, members of a group known as Yiman carried out a massacre:…
Language in Australia
Southern Alienation
Language politics
Languages of the heart
Language and migration
Asylum interviews as linguistic conflict zones
Language in Australia
Indigenous language denialism in Australia
Language learning
What is “Competent English”?
Language and social justice
Can speaking dialect make you ugly?