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
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
After 3 years of hard work, today I hit the "submit" button on my PhD thesis Today, I’ve submitted my PhD for examination – a major milestone on my PhD…
Pia TenederoJanuary 31, 2021
2020 has been a strange year for reading: some of us have had a lot more time for reading, others far less. Regardless whether you’ve been able to indulge or…
Language on the MoveDecember 3, 2020
Dr Vera Williams Tetteh tells her story to AfrOzcentric Often in my work as a sociolinguistic ethnographer, I am the one seeking out people and asking questions to learn about…
Vera Williams TettehOctober 26, 2020
https://vimeo.com/440477672 Besides meetings, webinars, and classes, another traditionally face-to-face event organized this year via Zoom is the 3-minute thesis (3MT) competition. This yearly academic contest, which challenges students to explain…
Pia TenederoAugust 20, 2020
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…
Johanna Ennser-KananenJuly 8, 2020
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…
Taina SaarinenJune 24, 2020
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…
Petteri LaihonenJune 18, 2020
It’s another International Women’s Day and time to reflect on powerful women: what is most noticeable about them is that there are so few of them. In academia, for instance,…
Ingrid PillerMarch 8, 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
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
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
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