Skip to main content

Picks from our archives

Multilingual families

Children as language brokers

Nizaqete Bislimi (Source: DuMont Verlag / Franz Brück) Some of the most striking images from the refugees who have been trekking across Europe are of families and children. Beyond the…
Language and globalization

Academic capitalism and the spread of English

In 2009, I contributed a chapter about the social inclusion of migrants in Australia to an edited book about immigration policy published in Japanese in Japan. The book is doing…
Multilingual histories

Accent and history

This is the story of a young Pakistani man, let’s call him Reza. Reza spent his early years in what was then East-Pakistan and what is today a different country,…
English as a global language
Bodies on the Move: Salsa, Language and Transnationalism
Language and law
Legal Corpus Linguistics
Language in education
Paying lip-service to diversity
Chats in Linguistic Diversity
Great Minds in Despair
Japanese women on the move
Language learning
Japanese women on the move
Multilingual families
Cost of monolingualism: $254,000