The Language-on-the-Move team proudly celebrate the graduation of Drs Alexandra Grey and Gary O'Neill Editor's note: This week the 20th and 21st PhD students I have supervised to completion graduated…
Language on the Move is back for another year and we’ll start the excitement with a reading challenge. One important piece of advice for all (aspiring) academics is to “Read,…
These umbrellas quickly became the trademark of ISB11, and could be spotted all over Limerick – and beyond! In June this year, I was fortunate to attend the 11th International…
Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) Procrastination is a fact of academic life, particularly during the PhD period, as every academic supervisor knows. However, judging from ever-increasing institutional efforts to control procrastination…
Members of the Language on the Move team meeting at ZUEL: Li Jia, Zhang Jie, Ingrid Piller, Kimie Takahashi, Guo Jian, Jackie Chang (fltr) Last week members of the Language…
Saeed Rezaei at Macquarie University's idyllic North Ryde campus Saeed Rezaei is currently a visiting scholar in the Department of Linguistics at Macquarie University. He will deliver a seminar about…
Salvador Dali, Gestalt As members of the Language-on-the-Move community know, I was the lucky guest of Ingrid at Macquarie last Wednesday and then the theme of her blog posting. As a…
Professor Bob Hodge When I was a PhD student, I read two books in Discourse Analysis, which were to become fundamental to my understanding of the field, namely Social Semiotics…
Editor's note, 22/01/2014: One of the joys of running Language on the Move is to experience its international collaborative reach in action. Two years ago, one of our readers, Olya Belenkaya, asked…
The deadline for the 2011 ALMA Award application has been extended to February 28th. Please consider applying and encourage interested students and colleagues to apply! We are particularly interested in…
In the past couple of weeks I’ve had the good fortune to be able to visit a number of universities and research organizations in the Middle East. The cities I’ve…
Michael Clyne with Emi Otsuji, the 2009 winner of the Michael Clyne Prize I was saddened this morning to read the Australian Linguistics Society’s news about Michael Clyne’s passing! Australian…
I am deeply saddened by the passing of Erwin Koller, one of my teachers and mentors, in Lisbon this weekend. It’s a special gift when teacher and student become friends…
I have served as book review editor for Discourse and Society for ten years and recently resigned from my roles as book review editor for Discourse Studies and Discourse and…
Our two plenary speakers It’s easy to have a good time at a conference on the spectacular campus of the American University of Sharjah and with such a great group of…
Exciting first day at the conference on “Fostering multiliteracies through education: Middle Eastern Perspectives” at the American University of Sharjah. Suresh Canagarajah, who blogs on academic writing and publishing in…