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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

Բազմամշակույթ Իսֆահանի Ոսկէ Շրջանը

Inside Vank Cathedral, the Armenian Cathedral of the Holy Savior in Isfahan. Construction began in 1606 and was completed in the 1660s (Source: Wikipedia) Armenian version of "A golden age…
Intercultural communication

Do bilinguals really have two souls?

Media image for "the dual identity" of bilinguals (Source: Luxemburger Wort) We keep reading media reports of studies which conclude that people who speak more than one language are capable of perceiving…
Multilingual histories

Portrait of a linguistic shirker

I recently pointed out that the widespread belief that migrants refuse to learn the language of their new country does not stack up against the realities of adult language learning.…
English as a global language
Seeing Asians speaking English
Language in Australia
Multiculturalism without multilingualism
Language and migration
Shopping while bilingual can make you sick
Language and tourism
Persepolis
English as a global language
Banal nationalism and the internationalization of higher education
Language and social justice
The diversity of the Other