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Language and law

The ethics of collecting data in public space

Editor’s note: We find ourselves in a time of deep global crisis when reflections on research ethics take on new urgency. Language on the Move is delighted to bring to…
Linguistic landscapes

Multilingual mismatch

Auburn parking ticket (left: quadrilingual on back; right: city logo on front) In Australia with its persistent monolingual mindset coming across any kind of official institutional multilingual communication always feels…
Language and migration

Bilingualism is good for you! … if you are a girl …

Bilingualism has a gender A while ago, I reported on the findings of a US study that demonstrated that children of immigrants who achieve high-level bilingual proficiency in both English…
Language at work
How (not) to address airline passengers
Intercultural communication
“Made in Germany” at risk? Volkswagen and the German trademark
Hanging on to German in the USA
Multilingual families
Hanging on to German in the USA
Language and social justice
The Sociolinguistics of Late Modern Publics
Welcome-to-the-US
Language learning
Linguistic extremism
Multilingual families
Early study abroad students in young adulthood