The official WHO name of the disease I am a citizen of Wuhan. Like millions of other Wuhan residents who now live in a state of fear and anxiety, the…
Zhang Jie 张洁February 25, 2020
Disinfectant activities I am writing this from my village in the mountainous Tibetan regions of western Sichuan Province, in China. We have been on lockdown for almost a month, and…
Yu LhaFebruary 17, 2020
Hamburg University will run a summer school devoted to "Language Diversity, Education, and Social Participation" this July. Abstract Linguistic (as well as cultural and social) diversity are basic characteristics of…
Language on the MoveFebruary 10, 2020
"التنوع اللغوي والعدالة الاجتماعية" - قريبا باللغة العربية حنان بن نافع "اللغة هي أكثر ما يكشف الرجل: تكلم، حتى أراك". يمكن القول بأن هذه المقولة المشهورة للكاتب المسرحي بن…
Hanan Ben NafaFebruary 3, 2020
Laura and Alex getting ready for their presentation at the Humboldt Symposium This time two years ago, Alexandra Grey (my blog co-author) and I had realized that there were important…
Laura Smith-KhanJanuary 20, 2020
In his 2005 article ‘Will Indigenous Languages Survive?’ Michael Walsh described language revitalization as ‘profoundly political’. And Jacqueline Urla, in discussing the Basque language movement, has said that language revitalization…
Gerald RocheJanuary 13, 2020
Read a lot, write a lot! Reading enhances your productivity as this selection (!) of recent books authored by Language-on-the-Move team members proves Are you ready for the Language on…
Ingrid PillerJanuary 8, 2020
You, too, can look as stylish as the Language-on-the-Move team. Get in the draw to win one our 10-year anniversary t-shirts! 2019 is almost over and before we head into…
Language on the MoveDecember 30, 2019
ABC Radio National has the perfect holiday treat for language lovers: a 5-part podcast series about multilingualism in Australia. In "Tongue-tied and fluent", Masako Fukui and Sheila Ngoc Pham (who…
Ingrid PillerDecember 23, 2019
The following is a summary of my recent article "On the conditions of authority in academic publics" in 14 tweets. The paper was published in the Journal of Sociolinguistics; an…
Ingrid PillerDecember 16, 2019
Professor Simon Handley, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Human Sciences, congratulates our HDR Excellence Award winners The year ends on a final high note for our team with three…
Language on the MoveDecember 13, 2019
Language on the Move is primarily concerned with linguistic resources that, in one way or another, have been or are ‘on the move’ and thus develops a profound understanding of…
Britta SchneiderDecember 9, 2019
Attendees of the Humboldt Symposium 2019 pose for a group photo Update, Dec 30, 2019: The official report, including program and book of abstracts is now available here. *** Regular…
Ingrid PillerNovember 29, 2019
Professor Ingrid Gogolin (Image credit: Markus Scholz) ***Update Nov 18, 2019: Due to unforeseen circumstances this lecture has been cancelled.*** On Monday, November 25, we'll host the final Lecture in Linguistic…
Language on the MoveOctober 25, 2019
The link between language and identity is a subject written about most profusely by linguists, and it never seems to fall into obsolescence. Yet, novelists manipulate the association between language…
Gegentuul BaioudOctober 16, 2019
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