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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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Intercultural communication

‘I’m not listening to you!’ Interacting in a linguistically diverse society

Manus Island Detention Centre, where Faysal Ishak Ahmed collapsed (Source: ABC News) On December 23, 2016, as most Australians were winding down for the holiday week ahead, Faysal Ishak Ahmed,…
Language and law

Frightful language tests

Trial by fire depicted in a medieval manuscript (Source: Wikipedia) In the Middle Ages those suspected of witchcraft were often subjected to a ‘trial by fire’ to prove their innocence…
Multilingual histories

The monolingual sniffer dog and the lonely rabbi

The current global order has thrown up yet another bewildering language problem: the monolingual sniffer dog! I glean the following from a recent NYT article about Rabbis in Montana: with…
Intercultural communication
Do bilinguals express different emotions in different languages?
Linguistic landscapes
Seeing the linguistic landscape through the eyes of Barbie and Ken
Language politics
Language Politics and Policy in Contemporary Maharashtra
English as a global language
English, China, and the Olympic Games
Language and migration
Discrimination by any other name: Language tests and racist migration policy in Australia
Language learning
The magic of English