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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

言語差別はいい加減に!

Multilingual sign in Namtso (Image Credit: Wikipedia) Japanese version of my recent blog post about Chinglish Translated by Kimie Takahashi (高橋 君江) このシナリオを想像してみてください。もしNew Yorkタイムズがブロンド女性を馬鹿にするジョークや黄色人種の面白エピソードを募集したとしたらどうでしょうか?さらにその応募キャンペーンが盛り上がり、ブログや Facebookやツイッターでそれが出回り、さらには、ジェンダー、エスニックの学者達がそれを取り上げ、「なぜブロンド女性や黄色人種はこんな馬鹿な ことをするのか」などと分析しだしたりしたらどうなるでしょうか? (more…)
Language and tourism

H.I.S. Research and Industry Forum on Linguistic Diversity and Tourism in Amazing Thailand

Readers who missed the H.I.S. Research and Industry Forum on Linguistic Diversity and Tourism in Amazing Thailand on July 02, 2013 at Assumption University of Thailand in Bangkok can view the…
Intercultural communication

Love on the Move: How Tinder is changing the way we date

Everyone wants to be a winner in the dating game; but it doesn't always work that way ... A 2015 article in the New York Post argued that mobile dating…
Language and migration
Home is where I’m alienated*
Linguistic landscapes
Finding Pakistan in Global Britain
Language learning
National Languages Curriculum
Language in Australia
Language and migration workshop
Linguistic landscapes
Multilingual Macau
Language and globalization
“Women, life, freedom” – the slogan swimming against the global tide