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Language and Gender in Films
We are pleased to announce a special lecture by film producer and casting director Yoko Narahashi at International Christian University, Tokyo. Yoko will discuss her experiences in Hollywood and the...
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‘Investing in language:’ Why do we think about language education the way we do?
‘Soaking up English like a sponge:’ The researcher’s young son engrossed in a Thesaurus If someone cannot now learn their native language, adding a couple of foerign (sic) dead languages is not going...
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Voice of China on the move
Voice of China Sydney 2015, Program Booklet It’s a weeknight at the Sydney Town Hall, an ornate 19th century building in the city centre. Almost everyone bustling in the entryway is of Chinese...
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Who is a real refugee?
Who is a real refugee? The refugee crisis in Europe has caught a lot of global media attention. Countries at the entry points and their official actions, as well civil organizations, get a lot of...
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‘Detours’ taken by Mongols on WeChat
A monument near Baganuur (Outer Mongolia) with an inscription of poem “My Native Land” by Natsagdorj (Source: Wikipedia) In the middle school Mongolian textbooks there is a well-known text called...
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Seminar about Minority Languages
Map of European languages (Source: SB Language Maps) Invitation to public seminar about “Minority Languages” at Macquarie University What: Minority languages: what are we talking about? And why are we...
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From oil spill to Brexit
The oil slick as seen from space (Source: Wikipedia) The British decision to exit the European Union (EU) in 2016 came as a surprise to many. In the lead up to the referendum, nationalist discourses...
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Virtually multilingual
English is the mother tongue of the Internet, or so it seems. English is omnipresent in the architecture of this breakthrough technology. You see it in the QWERTY keyboard, domain names, major search...
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Bridging new and traditional media in the fight against Covid-19
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...
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English language proficiency and national cohesion
Victorian Multicultural Commission, Melbourne (Image credit: Pramuk Perera, via Unsplash) In August, Australia’s Acting Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural...
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Esports are the new linguistic and cultural frontier
The heroic EDG esports winning team of League of Legends Chinese esports team Edward Gaming, or EDG for short, has just won the first ever Leagues of Legend (LoL) world championship. This is exciting...
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