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Language and social justice

Intercultural communication over coffee

Receptionist: Help yourself to a cap! Shiva: Pardon me? Receptionist: Help yourself to a cap! Shiva: This was a conversation I had in the reception area of a storage company on…
Multilingual histories

What makes foreigners weird? A quick guide to orientalism

Heinrich Zille, "Die Original Australier" auf dem Rummel, ca. 1900 One of the central arguments of my book Intercultural Communication is that, even today, much intercultural communication is approached from…
Language and law

Language learning is integral to practice-based legal education

Language learning is integral to practice-based legal education, and needs to be given more attention in research and course design. That’s the key message of my recently published article about…
The world in Arabia
Linguistic landscapes
The world in Arabia
Language in education
Plurilingual pre-service teachers
Language and globalization
Academic capitalism and the spread of English
Language and globalization
How do language barriers come about?
Language and law
Linguistics meets law
Language and globalization
“Women, life, freedom” – the slogan swimming against the global tide