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Linguistic landscapes

Banal multilingualism

As someone who is concerned about Australia’s monolingual mindset and the damage it does to individuals and our society as a whole, I probably should have been pleased to discover…
Language and globalization

‘Detours’ taken by Mongols on WeChat

A monument near Baganuur (Outer Mongolia) with an inscription of poem "My Native Land" by Natsagdorj (Source: Wikipedia) In the middle school Mongolian textbooks there is a well-known text called…
Vietnamese nail technicians
Language at work

The sociolinguistics of nail care

Have you recently had a manicure or a pedicure? I haven’t. In fact, I’ve never been to a nail salon in my life. Until about a decade ago that would…
Multilingual families
Christmas in Nicaragua
Language at work
Foreign nurses face the Kanji hurdle
Language and law
Legal literacy in a linguistically diverse society
Multilingual histories
How to end native speaker privilege
Language in education
Imagined communities in English language textbooks
Language and globalization
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