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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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Linguistic landscapes

Transliterated brand names

London Dairy ad on a building in Abu Dhabi, UAE Igloo ad on truck in Abu Dhabi, UAE I’ve just come across a 2006 University of South Africa MA thesis investigating…
English as a global language

انگلیسی، آن نا-زبان

  Persian version of my blog post about English as the non-language of globalization. Translated by Niloufar Behrooz (نیلوفر بهروز) (نوشتار شماره ٢ در مجموعه نوشتار های کوتاه درباره ی…
Language and migration

The real problem with linguistic shirkers

Asylum seekers practicing German (Source: Schwaebische.de) Germany has discovered a new social type that is causing grief in modern diverse societies: the “Integrationsverweigerer;” literally someone who refuses to integrate, a…
Multilingual families
Does multilingualism cause temper tantrums?
Multilingual families
Cost of monolingualism: $254,000
Language and migration
Partner language requirements and new borders for family life
Intercultural communication
I’m Dying to Speak to You
Language and social justice
Language, Education and Settlement: A Sociolinguistic Ethnography on, with, and for Africans in Australia
Language at work
Grassroots multilingualism