Akhlaq Ahmad at work on the mural in Shahdara for the ‘Delhi, I Love You’ project. (Image Credit: Delhi, I Love You) On July 8, 2020, The Wire published an…
Sue Ollerhead, Lecturer (Languages Education), Macquarie University, Australia Shepi Mati: Lecturer (Radio) Rhodes University, South Africa Monica Hendricks: Director: Institute for the Study of English in Africa, Rhodes University, South…
This article was originally published in the digital pamphlet Perspectives on the Pandemic: International Social Science Thought Leaders Reflect on Covid-19 produced by de Gruyter Social Sciences. *** The Covid-19…
Call for papers for a special issue of Multilingua devoted to “Linguistic diversity and public health: sociolinguistic perspectives on COVID-19” edited by Ingrid Piller, Jie Zhang, and Jia Li. The…
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…
"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…
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…
Indigenous Australians are imprisoned at much higher rates than non-Indigenous Australians (Source: Australian Law Reform Commission) Note: This post was co-authored with Laura Smith-Khan. Language on the Move mover-and-shaker, Dr…
Linguistic diversity is a demographic reality, as Dr Alexandra Grey pointed out in her presentation This week, Professor Lisa Lim and her colleagues from Sydney University’ School of Languages and Cultures…
The translator of the Persian version of Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice, Dr Saeed Rezaei The Persian translation of Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice (2016, Oxford University Press) has just…
The website of Hohhot Baita International Airport provides information in Chinese and English but not in Mongolian Update, Sept 16, 2020: A Mongolian translation of this blog post is now…
Click on this image to view video about the role of English and local languages in the educational experiences of Aboriginal children in remote communities Editor's Note: March 21 is…
Top 5 languages spoken in Australia in 2016 (Source: ABS) The Language-on-the-Move team is getting ready to launch a new research project investigating everyday intercultural communication in multilingual and multicultural…
Multilingual advice provided by the Administrate Review Tribunal Countries in the Global North have developed increasingly sophisticated and complex processes to assess the claims of people seeking asylum. One key…
King Sejong the Great (1397-1450) (Image source: Wikipedia) Today, South Koreans celebrate Hangul Day. Hangul Day is a national holiday to celebrate the Korean script. I am not aware of…