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Linguistic diversity in social life

By Ingrid Piller, author of "Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice" "Intercultural Communication" and "Life in a New Language"

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Ingrid Piller is an Australian linguist, who specializes in intercultural communication, language learning, multilingualism, and bilingual education. Piller is Distinguished Professor at Macquarie University and an elected fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Piller serves as Editor-in-Chief of the academic journal Multilingua and as founding editor of the research dissemination site Language on the Move. She is a member of the Australian Research Council (ARC) College of Experts. .. more

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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · 12h
Exciting news: 6 new research fellows have joined Ingrid Piller's @humboldt-foundation.de Professor team @uni-hamburg.de
Meet them at www.languageonthemove.com/introducing-...
Welcome @schenior.bsky.social @marakyrou.bsky.social @juaninlanguage.bsky.social @nicolemarinaro.bsky.social 🤗
Introducing the Humboldt Professorship team
Attentive readers will remember that in May this year we advertised six doctoral and postdoctoral positions to conduct research related to “Linguistic Diversity and Social Participation across the …
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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · 2d
So sweet to discover that "Linguistic diversity and social justice" is part of someone's holiday memories 🤩
juaninlanguage.bsky.social Der Juan @juaninlanguage.bsky.social · Oct 2
Wishing to go back to those days in May.

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Dr Laura Smith-Khan @lauraskh.bsky.social · 6d
@schenior.bsky.social has just begun a post-doc with Ingrid Piller (@languageonthemove.bsky.social) at Hamburg, with a bunch of other cool people. Follow her for research, stay for the book reviews 😀

Project overview here
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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · 6d
New on Language-on-the-Move: the native speaker is dead and everything but, even so, there is such a thing as native listening and explicit instruction matters in language learning, as Andrea Pešková explains
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Native listening and learning new sounds
I hear what you don’t hear Have you ever listened to a language you don’t know and thought you recognized a word—only to realize later that you were completely mistaken? Our ears play tricks on us.…
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Reposted by Ingrid Piller, Alan Richardson

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 13d
It's useful to recognise that, just 3 years ago, the UK government made it a specific CRIMINAL OFFENCE to procure a live person to complete university coursework for a student, but that government, and all major institutions, are now saying the use of a machine to complete such work is inevitable.

Reposted by Adrian Vickers

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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · 13d
New on the Language-on-the-Move podcast @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social: Alex Grey speaks with Zoe Avery (AIATSIS) about the 4th National Indigenous Languages Survey
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Australia’s National Indigenous Languages Survey
In this podcast, Dr Alexandra Grey speaks with Zoe Avery, a Worimi woman and a Research Officer at the Centre for Australian Languages within the Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Stra…
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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · 13d
The full story is in the book - based on research with 130 migrants to Australia from 34 countries over 20 years:

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Life in a New Language
Abstract. International migration is at an all-time high as ever more people move across national borders for work or study, in search of refuge or adventu
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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · 13d
3 tips for Life in a New Language:

1. It’s not just about language
2. Find allies and embrace the growing pains
3. You are playing a long-term game: fluency and belonging may not come as quickly as you’d hoped but they are achievable

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Language Expert Ingrid Piller Shares 3 Tips for Life in a New Language
Podcast Episode · All Ears English Podcast · 10/28/2025 · 20m
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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · 15d
Textbook example of the perennial power move to delegitimize the content of what someone is saying by focusing on the way they say it.
Also, English native speakerism is making a comeback in international communication ...

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Trump: “Israel’s not going to do anything with the West Bank”
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 18d
Thei wante us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe, and broadwaye to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop writinge. Thei want to sell us hell and have us pay for it.

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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · 19d
nuh, but have you checked out @atlasobscura.com?

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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · 19d
Exciting :) Glückwunsch und viel Spaß!

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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · 19d
Interested in literacy in multilingual contexts?

Consider joining this new international research network under the auspices of the World Education Research Association

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Literacy in Multilingual Contexts
The World Education Research Association (WERA) recently announced the launch of seven new International Research Networks (IRNs) and we are pleased to share that “Literacy in Multilingual Co…
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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · 19d
on the basis of what they had lying around? ;)

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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · 20d
different fliers ... (not translation)

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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · 26d
Sydney-based teachers needed for short survey about language brokering in schools - when children serve as interpreters for their parents

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Language brokering in schools
Are you a Sydney-based teacher who needs to communicate with parents who do not speak English or do not speak it well? Do you sometimes have to ask students to translate for you to communicate with…
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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · Oct 7
If you are in Sydney on Dec 8, join us for a 1-day research symposium to explore new technologies in intercultural communication: how do migrants and international students use AI to manage life in a new country? how do language learners use social media?
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Event: New Technologies in Intercultural Communication
You are invited to join us on Monday, December 08, at Macquarie University for a workshop to explore New Technologies in Intercultural Communication. Description: Digital technologies are in the pr…
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Der Juan @juaninlanguage.bsky.social · Oct 2
Wishing to go back to those days in May.

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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · Sep 30
New on Language-on-the-Move: everyone talks about using AI in education "critically" - that should mean NOT using it, argues Ana Bruzon

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Why “critical” use of AI in education might mean refusal
UNESCO’s ‘Digital Learning Week’, which focused on AI and the future of education, was held earlier this month, and debates about the role of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) in the classro…
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Brynn Quick @brynnquick.bsky.social · Sep 16
I am so fortunate to have been able to interview Shaun Tan about his beautiful book “The Arrival” for the @languageonthemove.bsky.social podcast and @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. www.languageonthemove.com/migration-is...
Migration is about every human challenge
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick speaks with writer, illustrator, filmmaker and Academy Award winner Shaun Tan. Shaun is best known for illustrated books that deal w…
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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · Sep 10
lot of people out here laboring under the misapprehension that uni is just further high school and there is some higher authority on content than the professor who is a live, working researcher in the field

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · Sep 10
For true innovacioun, we neede poetrye, philosophye, ethics, and the studye of historye and literature and language. We neede to fynde newe wayes of wearinge our heartes, new dreames of the future. Technologye alone will onlye make bettir tooles for makinge olde injustices happen faster.

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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · Sep 9
In the latest episode of the Language-on-the-Move podcast @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social, we explore the tension between two colliding forces - rapidly progressing climate change and global economic extraction as they play out in the Cold Rush in the heating Arctic
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Cold Rush
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Ingrid Piller speaks with Sari Pietikainen about her new book Cold Rush (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024). This book is an original study of “Cold Rush…
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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · Sep 8
"Wir alle leben in einer diversen Gesellschaft und müssen Wege finden, miteinander auszukommen. Das ist ein Überlebensimperativ für die Welt geworden. Da kann man sich eine Scheibe von mehrsprachigen Paaren abschneiden."
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Wir müssen reden, mi amor: So wirkt sich Sprache auf die Liebe aus
Ihre Beziehungen basieren auf Liebe, Vertrauen und Google Translate. 4 multilinguale Paare und eine Linguistin erklären, wie Sprache den gemeinsamen Alltag prägt.
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Clare Kelly @clarekelly.bsky.social · Sep 4
Academics are under unrelenting pressure to accept the narrative of the inevitability of #generativeAI & to embrace it in teaching & learning. We resist - because it is ecologically destructive, ethically corrupt, & because it undermines the thinking abilities that make us both human & intelligent.

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Iker Erdocia @ikererdocia.bsky.social · Sep 3
📢 Do you use AI tools in research + academia?

Survey for scholars working on language in society - please also consider participating if you do NOT use AI technologies.

Complete (15 min) & share by Sept 14 🙏https://eu.surveymonkey.com/r/FW27T97

Iker Erdocia, Britta Schneider & Bettina Migge

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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · Sep 2
In the latest episode of the Language-on-the-Move Podcast @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social, Dr @htorsh.bsky.social speaks with Vaughan Rapatahana about his new book on sexual exploitation in the TESOL industry

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Sexual predation and English language teaching
In this episode Hanna Torsh talks to Vaughan Rapatahana about sexual predation in the English language teaching industry. Dr Vaughan Rapatahana (Te Ātiawa) is an author, poet and editor who lives i…
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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · Aug 29
"Few books leave a lasting impact, but Life in a New Language will leave a significant one long after you engage with it."

Davida Asante about our 20-year research with 130 migrants to Australia, Australasian Review of African Studies

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Evangeline Gallagher @egallagher.bsky.social · Aug 26
Hello it’s me Sam Altman I have a zillion dollar idea it’s a chat bot that tells teenagers to kill themselves and you can generate csam with it and it poisons the air and water and it’s wrong most of the time and we’re going to put it in your refrigerator and stuff 👍 I need more money for this btw

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Language on the Move @languageonthemove.bsky.social · Aug 26
In the latest edition of the Language-on-the-Move Podcast @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social, Loy Lising chats with Ingrid Piller about the 3rd edition of her popular textbook "Intercultural Communication: A Critical Introduction" @edinburghup.bsky.social
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Intercultural Communication – Now in the 3rd edition
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Dr Loy Lising speaks with Distinguished Professor Ingrid Piller about the 3rd edition of her best-selling textbook Intercultural Communication (…
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