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Literacy in heritage language maintenance
Publicado en Language on the Move el 25/08/2020
Communicating globally while working remotely
Publicado en Language on the Move el 20/08/2020
Besides meetings, webinars, and classes, another traditionally face-to-face event organized this year via Zoom is the 3-minute thesis (3MT) competition. This yearly academic contest, which challenges students to explain their thesis in three minutes to a non-specialist audience, was started during one of the worst droughts in the history of Australia. With the current COVID-19 pandemic far...
Leer másWhat can Australian Message Sticks teach us about literacy?
Publicado en Language on the Move el 18/08/2020
Few people have ever heard about a fascinating form of visual communication used by Indigenous Australians: message sticks. When I teach about the invention of writing, I usually mention them in a little side note to illustrate the complexity of the question who invented writing, and what writing even is:
Leer másWhether #writing was invented even more often is complicated because (1) incomplete record (2) unclear connections between...
Bridging new and traditional media in the fight against Covid-19
Publicado en Language on the Move el 11/08/2020
Editor’s note: The Covid-19 pandemic has led to a renewed focus on linguistic diversity and the way it intersects with social inclusion. In this latest contribution to our series of language aspects of the COVID-19 crisis, Vasiliki Vita offers a case study of the virALLanguages project in Cameroon. An overview of this project, which supports local communities to produce credible COVID-19-related health information in their own languages, is available here. The call...
Leer másIs English spelling an insult to human intelligence?
Publicado en Language on the Move el 10/08/2020
Message- vs. community-centered models in risk communication
Publicado en Language on the Move el 06/08/2020
Editor’s note: The Covid-19 pandemic has led to a renewed focus on linguistic diversity and the way it intersects with social inclusion. In this latest contribution to our series of language aspects of the COVID-19 crisis, Pierpaolo di Carlo provides an overview of the virALLanguages project experience. The call for contributions to the series continues to be open.
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Publicado en Language on the Move el 03/08/2020
Essential messages for our time
Publicado en Language on the Move el 28/07/2020
“Basic Human”: the mother tongue of humankind
One of the most memorable sentences in the King James Bible comes from a line in the Acts of the Apostles, from St Paul’s speech to the Greeks in Athens (Acts 17:26): “[God] hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on all the face of the earth.”
Leer másWhy are academic lectures so weird?
Publicado en Language on the Move el 27/07/2020

My “audience” as I was recording the first online lecture...
“I regret having named him Sahil”: Urdu names in India
Publicado en Language on the Move el 23/07/2020