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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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English as a global language

Global toys in a local world

Recently, I had occasion to visit a toy store in Isfahan to buy a present for my seven-year-old cousin, who had invited me to his birthday party. Grand, impressive and…
Language and globalization

Virtually multilingual

English is the mother tongue of the Internet, or so it seems. English is omnipresent in the architecture of this breakthrough technology. You see it in the QWERTY keyboard, domain…
English as a global language

Baking a cookie in Iran

The Iranian-American comedian Maz Jobrani has a routine about the stereotypical views of Iranians as fanatics often presented in the Western media: Every time they show us on TV they…
Linguistic landscapes
Tokyo: Elegantly Multilingual
Language and migration
Partner language requirements and new borders for family life
Language learning
Japanese lessons learnt from Velcro tape
Multilingual histories
The devil’s handwriting
Language learning
Behind a name
Language at work
Monolingualism is bad for the economy