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
Have you been keeping up with the Language on the Move Reading Challenge 2023? If so, you will be looking forward to our 2024 Reading Challenge; and so here it…
Ingrid PillerDecember 17, 2023
Editor’s note: Regular readers of Language on the Move will have noticed that we have been very quiet for the past two months. This is because some core team members…
Language on the MoveMarch 7, 2023
Time flies and it’s time for another Reading Challenge. The annual Language on the Move Reading Challenge is designed to encourage broad reading at the intersection of linguistic diversity and…
Ingrid PillerDecember 26, 2022
Editor’s note: In this reflective post, Dr. Loy Lising shares how she balances the multiple demands placed on academics. As academic workloads have intensified, many feel that the balancing act…
Loy LisingDecember 19, 2022
Anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon interviewing unidentified Yanomami people Editor's note: How do researchers in anthropology and sociology deal with linguistic diversity? Do they learn the language(s) of the people they work…
Language on the MoveOctober 31, 2022
The 2022 Stanford list of the World’s Top 2% Scientists has just been released. It includes 335 linguists. So, I've done some quick number crunching to see who they are…
Ingrid PillerOctober 17, 2022
Editor's note: Multilingualism researchers and the products of their research can be surprisingly monolingual. It is therefore good to see the black box of multilingual research processes under the microscope…
Language on the MoveJuly 3, 2022
I am deeply saddened by the unexpected passing of my Doktorvater, Professor Hans Sauer. The German “Doktorvater” is usually translated as “PhD supervisor/advisor” but the literal translation “doctoral father” is…
Ingrid PillerJune 5, 2022
Top-10 countries producing linguistics research (Source: Scimago Journal & Country Rank) US- and UK-based scholars dominate linguistics Global academic knowledge production is dominated by the Anglosphere. In Linguistics, for example,…
Ingrid PillerMay 11, 2022
Applied linguistics is the study of language-based problems in the world, or as Brumfit (1997) puts it, “the theoretical and empirical investigation of real-world problems in which language is a…
Jeffrey GilApril 11, 2022
At the beginning of this year, Dr Pia Tenedero shared 10 tips to survive your PhD. As the year comes to a close, we hear from her again with reflections…
Ingrid PillerDecember 10, 2021
The Language on the Move Reading Challenge is designed to encourage broad reading in the discipline and beyond, and to make linguistics reading fun. Anyone with an interest in the…
Language on the MoveNovember 30, 2021
Emily Farrell, Britta Schneider, and Dorothea Horst, Europa-Universität Viadrina *** The push towards making research free and open to read, in all its parts and forms, from data sets to…
Emily FarrellAugust 10, 2021
There is a lot of talk about “cancel culture” these days. For instance, we are told that Dr Seuss recently got cancelled because his name was not mentioned during some…
Ingrid PillerMarch 8, 2021
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