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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 globalization

Urban sociolinguistics in Dubai

A couple of years ago, I mused here on Language on the Move what linguistic theory would look like if its dominant cultural ideas had not been shaped in 1950s…
Intercultural communication

The long conversation: Australia and China

Australia-China Youth Dialogue 2014 I recently returned from the Australia China Youth Dialogue in Beijing, my head buzzing with new ideas. The Dialogue promotes “more sophisticated cross-cultural understanding among Australian…
Language in education

Refugee children left behind as eagle lands on the moon

Yesterday, the New York Times carried a heart-breaking story about an exceptional school principal forced from her position under No-Child-Left-Behind legislation in order for the school district to obtain federal…
Language politics
Language Politics and Policy in Contemporary Maharashtra
Language learning
Reading ‘Culture Shock’ in Isfahan
Language and globalization
Why being in one place matters for transnational language use
Language and migration
Discourses of Integration: Language, Skills, and the Politics of Difference
Language and migration
Multiculturalism, linguistic diversity, and citizenship testing
Language at work
Language in the catfish war