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Intercultural communication

Men, English, and international romance

“Japanese guys aren’t the most popular creatures on earth when it comes to romance. Sad but true.” That’s the claim of Meiko Mochizuki Swartz, self-professed bilingual, bicultural ‘expert’ and author…
Language at work

Multilingual diversity marketing

As the UAE is still abuzz with the opening of the Burj Khalifa, I thought a post to mark the occasion might be in order. Seeing that I’m blogging on…
Language and law

Refugee credibility assessment and the vanishing interpreter

Dr Laura Smith-Khan during her keynote at InDialog (Image credit: Dries Cavents, UGhent) Editor's Note: Asylum seekers in countries of the Global North need to communicate a credible fear of…
Linguistic landscapes
The f-word on the move
Language and migration
Discourses of Integration: Language, Skills, and the Politics of Difference
English as a global language
Marketing English as the global language
Language and law
Guidelines for communicating rights to non-native speakers of English
Language in education
Turkish alphabetisation for German integration
Intercultural communication
The colonial cringe in academia