Thanks to the award of an Alexander-von-Humboldt-Professorship to Ingrid Piller we are hiring a dream team of doctoral and postdoctoral fellows to conduct research related to “Linguistic Diversity and Social…
Ingrid PillerMay 12, 2025
Professors Piller and Dong Gong Xi Fa Cai! All good wishes for the Year of the Snake! The Chinese New Year holiday brought a lovely opportunity to receive a visit…
Ingrid PillerJanuary 29, 2025
The author team of "Life in a New Language" “This year was average; worse than the year before but better than next year.” I am reminded of this saying each…
Ingrid PillerDecember 30, 2024
Book reading is an important part of individual and social wellbeing (Image copyright: Sadami Konchi) Each year, I survey my Literacies students about their reading and writing activities. Over the…
Ingrid PillerDecember 27, 2024
How do street-level bureaucrats in Austria’s public service deal with linguistic diversity? In this episode of the Language on the Move podcast, I speak with Dr Clara Holzinger (University of Vienna)…
Ingrid PillerNovember 17, 2024
Supermarket in Naples (Image credit: Marco Santello) A key part of the experience of migration is not being in full control of one’s circumstances and doings. In this episode, Ingrid…
Ingrid PillerOctober 14, 2024
"Giant Head" installation at the Gentle Monster store at Sydney Airport One of the goals of graduate education is to empower students to reach their academic and professional goals by…
Ingrid PillerAugust 25, 2024
Engaging debate at the "Multilingual Crisis Communication" Symposium organized by Profs LI Jia and ZHANG Jie Highlights of Day 3 of the 21st AILA World Conference: Southern epistemologies, real-life catch-ups,…
Ingrid PillerAugust 15, 2024
In Episode 17 of the Language on the Move Podcast, Ingrid Piller speaks with Rosemary Salomone about her 2021 book The Rise of English: Global Politics and the Power of…
Ingrid PillerMay 21, 2024
In Episode 12 of the Language on the Move Podcast, I speak with James McElvenny about his new book History of Modern Linguistics. This book offers a highly readable, concise…
Ingrid PillerApril 10, 2024
In this latest episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, I spoke with Jasna Novak Milić, the director of the Croatian Studies Center at Macquarie University. The Croatian Studies…
Ingrid PillerApril 8, 2024
In this new episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, I spoke with Dr Jim Hlavac about interpreting in Australia. Dr Hlavac is a senior lecturer in the Monash…
Ingrid PillerMarch 20, 2024
Language on the Move has launched a podcast We are delighted to share an exciting new development: Language on the Move has partnered with the New Books Network (NBN) to…
Ingrid PillerFebruary 16, 2024
The Next Generation Literacies Network is hosting its network conference devoted to “Social Participation in Linguistically Diverse Societies” at Hamburg University this week. I take this opportunity to share my…
Ingrid PillerJanuary 10, 2024
Just before the holidays, Professor Aneta Pavlenko and I chatted about Aneta’s new book Multilingualism and History. We talked about amnesia and ignorance pacts in contemporary sociolinguistics, ghost signs that point to dark…
Ingrid PillerJanuary 3, 2024
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