Skip to main content

Picks from our archives

Language and tourism

New Swiss Christianity: Let’s build brothels

A few years ago I wrote a paper about the sexualization of public space in Switzerland. The paper will be published next year as “Sex in the City: On Making…
Language politics

French Language Day

I missed the UN’s French language day! It’s not the fact that I missed it that bothers me – I’m late for pretty much everything – it’s the fact that…
Language in education

Children of the harvest: schooling, class and race

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…
English as a global language
English and development aid work
English as a global language
انگلیسی یا فارسی؟
Language and globalization
Anatomy of language shaming
Language and law
The ethics of collecting data in public space
Linguistic landscapes
Tokyo: Elegantly Multilingual
Language learning
Selling English tuition