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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…
Language in education

Does a language have to be European to be ‘modern’?

Top 10 languages other than English spoken in England and Wales, 2011 (Source: ONS) Modern languages are not merely European languages. Obvious as this may seem, it needs restating as…
Language and migration

Who is a real refugee?

Who is a real refugee? The refugee crisis in Europe has caught a lot of global media attention. Countries at the entry points and their official actions, as well civil…
Language and tourism
More on orientalism and tourism
Multilingual families
Australian on the Move
Language at work
Not knowing English good for business?
English as a global language
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Chats in Linguistic Diversity
What does it mean to govern a multilingual society well?
English as a global language
What happens when researcher and researched speak different languages?