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Language Rights Defenders Award

Tove Skutnabb-Kangas (1940-2023) The Global Coalition for Language Rights is pleased to announce the first annual Language Rights Defenders Award. This award aims to recognize and honor individuals who demonstrate…
Gerald Roche
March 28, 2024

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Language and globalization

Japanese in Yangon

Japan Store near the University of Yangon “Welcome to the Golden Guest Inn, Ms Takahashi! We've been expecting you!” A Chinese-Burmese man warmly welcomed me on my arrival at his…
Language politics

The politics of subtitling

Recently, I watched a TV documentary about the proliferation of Nomura jellyfish in Japanese coastal waters. It was a shocking tale of the devastating environmental, economic, social and human impact…
Language and tourism

Pallarès, Catalan, the Pyrenees and tourism in global times

Actress Noemí Busquets as the wise yet naughty Esperanceta Gassia at the Ecomuseu de les Valls d’Àneu during the theatrical night visit to the ethnographic museum of Esterri d’ Àneu…
Intercultural communication
Why the linguist needs the historian
Language politics
Shibboleth: Kyrgyz or Uzbek?
English as a global language
Internationalization as Englishization
Language politics
What’s in a name?
Multilingual families
What if I lose my language? What if I have lost my language?
Language and globalization
How do language barriers come about?