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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…
Language and globalization

E lasciate in pace il Chinglish!

Multilingual sign in Namtso (Image Credit: Wikipedia) Italian version of my blog post about Chinglish. Translated by Emanuela Moretto Per un attimo provate a pensare che il New York Times abbia…
English-Only at Bon Secours
Language at work

English-Only at Bon Secours

English-Only at Bon Secours From what I read, there is a nursing shortage in the Global North. From North America to Japan and from Europe to the Gulf countries, rich…
Language and migration
Multiculturalism, linguistic diversity, and citizenship testing
Chats in Linguistic Diversity
Supporting multilingual families to engage with schools
English as a global language
Internationalization and Englishization in Higher Education
Linguistic landscapes
Banal multilingualism
Chats in Linguistic Diversity
Language policy at an abortion clinic
Chats in Linguistic Diversity
Australia’s National Indigenous Languages Survey