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Linguistic landscapes

Dialoguing through prohibitions and transgressions

Editor's note: Mathematicians, such as the present author, continue to use the academic "we," even if there is only one author. As regular readers will know, that's not how we…
Language politics

How to Study Language and Social Relations in Times of Global Mobility

The Sociolinguistic Economy of Berlin Imagine you want to study language diversity as a phenomenon of contemporary society. Where do you start? You can, for example, ask teachers to count…
Language and social justice

Can English skills help end migrant exploitation?

In Bahrain, I was beaten. For example, they asked for tea. I gave tea leaves. I did not make the tea. She put her hand on my neck and moved…
Multilingual histories
Alexander von Humboldt visits Australia
Chats in Linguistic Diversity
Your languages are your superpower!
Language learning
Monolingual media beat-up
English as a global language
Multilingual Hong Kong
Intercultural Communication: A Critical Introduction (Piller, 2011)
Intercultural communication
Desire to know more
Multilingual histories
What makes foreigners weird? A quick guide to orientalism