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Language and globalization

Globalization between crime and piety

How is your Language-on-the-Move Reading Challenge coming along? One month has gone by and you should have ticked off at least one book from our list. I started with an…
English as a global language

Disenchanted in Bangkok

Burmese newspaper in a Bangkok restaurant “When Thai people ask me where I’m from, I tell them, “Oh I’m from the Philippines or Singapore. Then, I don’t get that look!”…
Intercultural communication

Why the linguist needs the historian

Diagram of the ‘radial definition routes’ of Panoptic Conjugation (Ogden 1930: 12) A fascinating turn in recent Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) scholarship is the development of 'Minimal English', an international…
Chats in Linguistic Diversity
Sexual predation and English language teaching
Language in education
Are we killing the joy of reading?
Language and globalization
Banal cosmopolitanism
Linguistic landscapes
Regulating Muslims: Tazin Abdullah wins 3MT competition
Language and social justice
Power to fangyan!
English propaganda creates blind spots
English as a global language
English propaganda creates blind spots