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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 in Australia

The burden of multilingualism in Australia

English-Only Australia? (Source: blogs.crikey.com.au) In recent Australian political conversation, there is an increasingly bipartisan recognition of the value of cultural and linguistic diversity. So it’s fair to ask, what is…
Language and law

Lawyers need to know more about language

2019 Conference of the International Association of Forensic Linguists Note: This post was co-authored with Alexandra Grey. The Biennial Conference of the International Association of Forensic Linguists (IAFL) was held…
Language in Australia

Indigenous language denialism in Australia

Gerald Roche (Senior Research Fellow, La Trobe University) and Jakelin Troy (Director, Indigenous Research, The University of Sydney) *** Source: Australian Museum Editor’s note: This week (Nov 08-15) we are…
Language and globalization
E lasciate in pace il Chinglish!
Intercultural communication
“Baraye” – preposition of the year
Intercultural communication
The long conversation: Australia and China
Language in education
Sink-or-swim for international students
Language and social justice
Rising multicultural middle class
English as a global language
Is English a local language in Berlin?