Spotted in a neighborhood in Doha this morning: rooftop antennas beautified with a symbol of local identity and hospitality (a dallah, the traditional Arab coffee pot).
#Doha #Qatar #UrbanSemiotics #Streetscapes #Technoscapes #EverydayHeritage #Identity
English classes are being targeted by anti-immigration protesters – but they’ve been politicised for years
Really enjoyed contributing a blog + podcast to Language on the Move in 2025 and delighted that the podcast made the top 10 downloads.
Well worth following and subscribing to; I regularly use it in my teaching! Thanks to Ingrid Piller and the team for sustaining such a wonderful platform!
It’s especially freaky when students cite your own work in class presentations and you know you never wrote about that concept.
A screenshot from the LL17, Linguistic Landscape 17 Workshop (4-6 June 2026 at the University of Limerick, Ireland). The screenshot shows site navigation links (Home, Programme, Travel, Stay, Contact Us) in the top right; a stylized colorful watercolor-style cityscape banner image near the top, and the greeting words "Welcome to LL17 Linguistic Landscape" and other general info centered at bottom
Next year's #LinguisticLandscape Workshop (June 4-6, @unioflimerick.bsky.social) call for papers announced around the theme of "Crisis". Researchers, practitioners, educators, artists, others working on language in public space, take a look!
www.linguisticlandscape17.com #AcademicSky #cfp
New on Language-on-the-Move: fascinating longitudinal linguistic landscape study by @sarapatra.bsky.social and team, chronicling the shifts from Texan English to Qatari Arabic in a Middle Eastern university
www.languageonthemove.com/from-howdy-t...
Thanks so much!
That is quite a story! The campus has been in Qatar for 20 years and the sudden vote to close it was quite a shock to everyone. We didn’t go into all the darker geopolitical stuff in this post…
This is an absolutely fantastic post about a fascinating education #LinguisticLandscape!
Kudos to everyone involved in this post and project!
Thank you @michaelchesnut.bsky.social!
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Thanks for engaging and glad you found it interesting!
It was great to be part of one of my favorite podcasts, Language on the Move! Have a listen!
(Please ignore my slip of the tongue when talking about education in the early 2000s—I meant to say Qatar was really promoting English then, not Arabic!)
Hey friends and colleagues, we’re hiring in English! Looking for candidates specializing in rhetoric and composition and technical and professional writing.
www.hbku.edu.qa/en/careers/a...
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Honoured be a keynote speaker, alongside Sara Hillman, at GUST Global Studies Center conference in Kuwait (April 15-16). Excellent panels, warm hospitality, delicious food, and fantastic company! Heartfelt thank you to Marta tryzna, Jennifer Loftkrantz, and team!
Come join us for this interesting event on Chinese language policy in the Arabian Gulf countries — an emerging and significant topic in linguistic research.
🗓️ Sat 12th April
⏰ 11:30am BST / 1:30pm Saudi / 6:30pm China
📍 Online
To register see link / QR code: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
On Language-on-the-Move, we have started a new mini-series to make sense of current US language politics. First up, legal scholar Rosemary Salomone explains the background to making English the official language - a solution in search of a problem
www.languageonthemove.com/english-in-t...
Looking forward to seeing you at #FLC2025 ❤️
www.flcgroup.net/flc-2025/
Linguicism and racism at its finest 🤮.
We have always been a multilingual country. We will remain a multilingual country. Because we, the people, are multilingual.
Also, which English? There are so many varieties in America (and the world).
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As a sociolinguist who is literally in the middle of doing a PhD about how governments and institutions manage linguistic diversity, I cannot stress enough what a damaging move this will be. www.bbc.com/news/article...
I’m honoured to be a plenary speaker, alongside @sarapatra.bsky.social at the Global Studies Center Conference in Kuwait on April 15-16, 2025. Check out the CfP and hope to see you there! www.gust.edu.kw/gsc/events/g...
Happy Lunar New Year! One of my goals this year is to write more public-facing pieces, so I’m pleased to share my latest article: “Mandarin Chinese is Finding Its Place in Qatar.”
#mandarinchinese #chinaqatarrelations #languageeducation #linguisticlandscapes
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Confs: Global linguistics, local identities: Exploring Cultural Hybridity: Keynote Speakers
Dr. Sarah Hopkyns, Lecturer in TESOL and International Education, University of St. Andrews, UK
Dr. Sara Hillman, Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and English, Hamad Bin Khalifah University, Qatar…