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Language shaming at the crossroads of race and state borders

Location of Inner Mongolia within China (Image credit: TUBS, Wikimedia) The Humboldt Professorship Team "Linguistic Diversity and Social Participation across the Lifespan" at Universität Hamburg is pleased to host a…

Language on the MoveOctober 22, 2026

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Emotions in digital heritage language use

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah chats with Dr. Priyanka Bose. Priyanka is a lecturer in English Literacy Education at the School of Education…

Tazin AbdullahOctober 21, 2026

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Hearing children of Deaf migrants: research participants wanted

Are you a hearing Coda (child of Deaf adults) who has migrant parents? Researchers from Macquarie University would like to talk to you about your language practices and experiences as…

Emily PachecoOctober 19, 2026

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Medical receptionists facilitate language access: Brynn Quick wins 2026 ALAA 3MT competition

Congratulations to Brynn Quick, who just won the 2026 3-minute-thesis competition of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA)! Watch her explain her research about medical receptionists and how they…

Language on the MoveOctober 9, 2026

Language and law Language in Australia

Aboriginal languages in Australia’s parliament

Last year, I wrote here on Language on the Move about Members of Parliament (MPs) across Australia making linguistic diversity visible. My research amplifies the increasing numbers of elected representatives…

Alexandra GreySeptember 30, 2026

Chats in Linguistic Diversity Language learning

How were foreign languages learned in early modern Europe?

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick chats with Professor Dr. Natalia Filatkina, Dr. Kerstin Roth and Research Associate Miriam Hinterholzer. All three work at…

Brynn QuickSeptember 23, 2026

Chats in Linguistic Diversity Intercultural communication

Linguistic unease in healthcare

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick chats with Dr. Nicole Marinaro, a sociolinguist and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Hamburg. Her work explores…

Brynn QuickSeptember 2, 2026

Chats in Linguistic Diversity

Speech and the City

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Ingrid Piller speaks with Yaron Matras about his new book Speech and the City. In this timely book, Yaron shows…

Ingrid PillerAugust 26, 2026

Chats in Linguistic Diversity Language in education

Taking the scenic route to high quality education for Indigenous students

What path do you take if the metaphorical mountain is too steep for both learners and teachers to climb? In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Dr…

Agnes BodisAugust 19, 2026

Next Gen Literacies Research reflections

Epistemic belonging and purposeful interactions

Editor’s note: The 2026 Hamburg International Summer School "Literacies for Social Participation" has come and gone. For those of us fortunate enough to attend, it was an epic learning opportunity with…

Language on the MoveAugust 12, 2026

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Language work in the internet café

A locutorio shop front in Barcelona (Source: El Periodico) There is now a well-established body of work exploring the language work provided by service workers in call centres and tourist…

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Tipsy on multilingualism?!

English-speaking countries have a poor track record when it comes to language learning. Educators in Australia, the UK and the USA regularly bemoan that fact and call for a change…

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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…

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Literacy and the differential value of knowledge

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Legal literacy in a linguistically diverse society

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A journey through Japan’s linguistic peripheries

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Fighting for ‘pure’ Mongolian

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Language and Indigenous Disadvantage

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Filipina domestic workers in Madrid

Education that reflects local language, culture, and Country

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Emotions in digital heritage language use

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