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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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Multilingual histories

What makes foreigners weird? A quick guide to orientalism

Heinrich Zille, "Die Original Australier" auf dem Rummel, ca. 1900 One of the central arguments of my book Intercultural Communication is that, even today, much intercultural communication is approached from…
Language at work

Accountants as language workers

It is probably the least intuitive way of describing accountants, but these number-crunchers are, in fact, also language workers. This part of their professional identity is largely hidden for at…
Language and globalization

!دست از سر چینگلیش بردارید

Multilingual sign in Namtso (Image Credit: Wikipedia) Persian version of my recent blog post about Chinglish Translated by Tahmineh Tayebi (تهمینه طیبی) & Vahid Parvaresh (وحید پرورش) تصور کنید که…
Language and social justice
Rising multicultural middle class
Multilingual families
English dominates at German camp in USA
Language learning
Bilingualism delays onset of dementia
Language and migration
Is language learning on the job the best way to learn a new language?
English as a global language
Banal nationalism and the internationalization of higher education
Language and social justice
Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice in Persian