The Linguistic Ethnography Forum will host a free e-seminar devoted to Ingrid Piller’s new book Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice: An Introduction to Applied Sociolinguistics. Please join us for this…
Lg_on_the_moveMay 4, 2016
Kifibin’s workplace was a big event centre, which was open to the public only once a week Let me at once introduce you to the main character of this blog…
Maiju StrommerApril 13, 2016
Albanian-Greek border crossing at Kakavijë (Source: greece.com) Our understanding of the role of language in social life suffers from a particularly intractable problem: the terms we use to speak about…
Ingrid PillerApril 6, 2016
Asylum seekers practicing German (Source: Schwaebische.de) Germany has discovered a new social type that is causing grief in modern diverse societies: the “Integrationsverweigerer;” literally someone who refuses to integrate, a…
Ingrid PillerMarch 30, 2016
Ingrid Piller, Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice, Oxford University Press, March 2016 Oxford University Press has just released Ingrid Piller’s new book Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice: An Introduction to…
Lg_on_the_moveMarch 23, 2016
Asylum seekers in Australia face a few very public hurdles. Successive governments have used increasingly restrictive refugee policies to gain votes. Meanwhile, the media often focuses on the issue of…
Laura Smith-KhanMarch 15, 2016
Murugan Temple, Colombo (Source: Andy Nobes) Do you know which non-Christian religion has grown the fastest in Australia since the new millennium? You might be surprised to hear that it’s…
Niru PereraMarch 9, 2016
Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) Some contemporary sociolinguists love to hate an 18th century educator, philosopher, theologian, translator and general polymath by the name of Herder. Hardly a week goes by…
Ingrid PillerMarch 4, 2016
Grace Chu-Lin Chang has completed her PhD thesis entitled “Language learning, academic achievement, and overseas experience: A sociolinguistic study of Taiwanese students in Australian higher education”. The thesis is now available…
Grace Chu-Lin ChangFebruary 23, 2016
Livia Gerber has just completed her Master of Research thesis entitled “We really believe that we have given our children a gift”: Discourses on bilingual child-rearing in an online parenting…
Livia GerberFebruary 18, 2016
Alex spent a stimulating summer centered on child multilingualism away from the leafy Macquarie campus Macquarie University campus seemed to sleep in the summer sun once the semester ended last…
Alexandra GreyFebruary 16, 2016
"Sauberkeit" ("cleanliness") - another of those key cultural concepts Everyone who has learned a second language will have noticed that certain words and expressions cannot be translated easily from one…
Rahel CramerFebruary 10, 2016
Language and migration: the workshop presenters and organizers On December 11th, Ingrid Piller (Macquarie University) and Donna Butorac (Curtin University), organised a workshop on Language and Migration for the 2015…
Donna ButoracFebruary 3, 2016
January 26, Australia Day: whether you are celebrating depends on your perspective (Source: news.com.au) Here in Australia we celebrated our national holiday yesterday. Australia Day marks the end of the…
Ingrid PillerJanuary 27, 2016
The graduation of Dr. Vera Williams Tetteh was one of the 2015 highlights here a Language-on-the-Move headquarters at Macquarie University Another year almost gone and the Language on the Move…
Lg_on_the_moveDecember 15, 2015
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