New Books in Language and Translation

David Krolikoski, "Lyrical Translation: The Creation of Modern Poetry in Colonial Korea" (U Hawai'i Press, 2026)

02 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Lyrical Translation: The Creation of Modern Poetry in Colonial Korea (U Hawai'i Press, 2026)is a literary history of modern Korean poetry's o...

Elena Foulis, "Embodied Encuentros: Oral History Archives of Latina/o/e Experiences" (Ohio State UP, 2026)

29 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In Embodied Encuentros: Oral History Archives of Latina/o/e Experiences (Ohio State UP, 2026), Elena Foulis offers a practical guide for completing ...

The (Un)imagined Work of Linguistic Inclusion

21 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Emily Pacheco speaks with PhD candidate Brynn Quick (Macquarie University, Australia) about h...

Nathaniel Greenberg, "The Long War of Ideas: American Public Diplomacy in Arabic After 9/11" (Columbia UP, 2026)

19 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In the wake of the September 11 attacks, US officials identified the so-called battle for hearts and minds as the “second front” in the war on ter...

Myung-jin Han with Nicolas Levi, "I Was a North Korean Diplomat: Inside the Secret World of Pyongyang's Foreign Service" (Independently Published, 2026)

18 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Nicolas Levi is a researcher at the Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He has authored numerous book...

Elizabeth Rosner, "Third Ear: Reflections on the Art and Science of Listening" (Catapult, 2025)

14 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This illuminating book Third Ear: Reflections on the Art and Science of Listening (Catapult, 2025) weaves personal stories of a multilingual upbrin...

Ted Goossen on translating Hiromi Kawakami’s “Third Love”

10 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Translator Ted Goossen talks about everything from first landing in Japan in 1968 to the differences between translating Haruki Murakami and Hiromi Ka...

Rishi Rajpopat, "Panini's Perfect Rule: A Modern Solution to an Ancient Problem in Sanskrit Grammar" (Harvard UP, 2025)

09 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Panini’s Ashtadyayi is one of the most famous works in Sanskrit, a so-called “linguistic machine” that, through its 4,000 words, allows someone ...

Older Adults Learning English in Berlin

07 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the Language on the Move podcast Dr Hanna Torsh talks to Katharina Gensch (University of Hamburg) about her new paper "English la...

Yiddish Children’s Literature and Jewish Modernity: A Conversation with Miriam Udel

06 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Scholars are only beginning to consider the corpus of nearly one thousand extant books, as well as several periodicals, that constitute the Yiddish ch...

Dominik Berrens, "Naming New Things and Concepts in Early Modern Science: The Case of Natural History" (Cambridge UP, 2026)

06 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Naming new discoveries is central to science, and for centuries, Latin dominated this process. The resulting terminology still shapes modern science, ...

Zhou Meisen, "Property of the People" (Sinoist, 2025)

03 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

"Honoured Investors, As Zhongfu Group enters its eighth decade, we are pleased to announce the acquisition of two famous coal mines. These assets fur...

Asif Iqbal, "Bangladesh in Anglophone and Vernacular Literature: Cultural Imaginings of a Postcolonial Nation" (Routledge, 2025)

02 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Bangladesh in Anglophone and Vernacular Literature: Cultural Imaginings of a Postcolonial Nation (Routledge, 2025) illuminates individual and collec...

Teaching English Pronunciation

31 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the Language on the Move podcast Dr Hanna Torsh talks to Lindsay McMahon, founder of the All Ears English Podcast, about pronunc...

Why Did Langston Hughes's "Troubled Lands" Go Unpublished for Nearly a Century?: A Conversation with Ricardo Wilson

27 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Why did Langston Hughes's translations of Mexican and Cuban stories go unpublished for nearly a century? A landmark book—the first complete publica...

Yiddish in Israel: A History

27 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The new book Yiddish in Israel: A History (Indiana UP, 2020) challenges the commonly held view that Yiddish was suppressed or even banned by Isr...

Danny Bate, "Why Q Needs U: A History of Our Letters and How We Use Them" (Bonnier Books, 2025)

21 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Every letter you’re reading right now has a fascinating story to tell, having been on a long linguistic, historical, political and social journey. T...

Lorena Sekwan Fontaine and Adam Muller eds., "The Erasure and Revitalization of Indigenous Cultures and Languages" A Special Issue of Genocide Studies International" (Vol 16, No 2)

21 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Lorena Sekwan Fontaine and Adam Muller, eds., The Erasure and Revitalization of Indigenous Cultures and Languages: A Special Issue of Genocide Studie...

Hiromi Ito, "The Thorn Puller" (Stone Bridge Press, 2022)

20 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Hiromi Ito author of The Thorn Puller (originally published in Japanese as Toge-nuki Jizo: Shin Sugamo Jizo engi) came to national attention in Ja...

Margherita Trento et al., "For the Love of Tamil: Essays in Honor of E. Annamalai" (UnionPress, 2025)

12 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

For the Love of Tamil celebrates the life and work of E. Annamalai (born 1938), the most prominent Tamil linguist of his generation. Spanning six dec...

Margherita Trento et al., "For the Love of Tamil: Essays in Honor of E. Annamalai" (UnionPress, 2025)

12 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

For the Love of Tamil celebrates the life and work of E. Annamalai (born 1938), the most prominent Tamil linguist of his generation. Spanning six dec...

The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City with Henry Sapoznik

08 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City (SUNY Press, 2025) offers a new look at over a century of Yiddish culture in New York City. Autho...

Alex Brostoff and Vilashini Cooppan eds., "Autotheories" (MIT Press, 2025)

06 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

A transdisciplinary array of authors offering a new frame of reference for autotheory and its genre-bending synthesis of autobiography and critical th...

Damion Searls, "The Philosophy of Translation" (Yale UP, 2024)

05 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The Philosophy of Translation (Yale UP, 2024) is a fresh, approachable, and convincing account of what translation really is and what translators act...

Sophie Salvo, "Articulating Difference: Sex and Language in the German Nineteenth Century"(U Chicago Press, 2024)

01 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Drawing on a wide range of texts, from understudied ethnographic and scientific works to canonical literature and philosophy, Sophie Salvo uncovers th...

Renny Thomas and Sasanka Perera, "Decolonial Keywords: South Asian Thoughts and Attitudes" (Columbia UP, 2025)

26 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Decolonial Keywords: South Asian Thoughts and Attitudes (Columbia UP, 2025) presents a set of keywords and concepts embedded in the languages of Sou...

Found in Translation: Many Meanings on a North Australian Mission

25 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah talks to Dr. Laura Rademaker (Australian National University), the author of Found ...

Elaine M. Fisher, "The Meeting of Rivers: Translating Religion in Early Modern India" (Oxford UP, 2025)

12 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In The Meeting of Rivers: Translating Religion in Early Modern India (Oxford UP, 2025), Elaine Fisher reconstructs Vīraśaiva origins from unst...

Manchán Magan, "Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape" (Chelsea Green, 2026)

11 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Most people associate Britain and Ireland with the English language, a vast, sprawling linguistic tree with roots in Latin, French, and German, and br...

Rishi Rajpopat, "Panini's Perfect Rule: A Modern Solution to an Ancient Problem in Sanskrit Grammar" (Harvard UP, 2025)

29 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Around 500 BCE, the Indian scholar Pāṇini wrote a treatise on Sanskrit, the Aṣṭādhyāyī, describing a kind of language machine: an algebrai...

Daniel Eastman An, "Fear of God: Practicing Emotion in Late Antique Monasticism" (U California Press, 2025)

24 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In the writings of ancient Christians, the near-ubiquitous references to the "fear of God" have traditionally been seen as a generic placeholder for p...

Sylvia D. Hoffert, "Wagging Tongues and Tittle Tattle: Gossip, Rumor, and Reputation in a Small Southern Town" (U Georgia Press, 2025)

08 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In Wagging Tongues and Tittle Tattle: Gossip, Rumor, and Reputation in a Small Southern Town (University of Georgia Press, 2025), Dr. Sylvia Hoffert...

Radio ReOrient 13.7: "Linguistics, Citizenship and Belonging,” with Kamran Khan, hosted by Claudia Radiven and Marchella Ward

28 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Claudia Radiven and Chella Ward talked with Kamran Khan about linguistics, citizenship and belonging. The conversation travelled from...

Luke Gibson, "Reading Sanskrit: A Complete Step-By-Step Introduction with Texts from the Buddhist Tradition" (Columbia UP, 2025)

20 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This textbook offers a fresh approach to learning Sanskrit, the ancient language at the heart of South Asia’s vast religious, philosophical, and lit...

Emily Winderman, "Back-Alley Abortion: A Rhetorical History (JHU Press, 2025)

19 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How did three words come to carry the weight of America's abortion debates? In Back-Alley Abortion: A Rhetorical History (JHU Press, 2025), Dr. Emil...

Henry H. Sapoznik, "The Tourist's Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City" (SUNY Press, 2025)

18 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Tourist's Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City (SUNY Press, 2025) by Henry H. Sapoznik explores a century of Yiddish popular culture in New York ...

Michelle McSweeney, "OK" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

17 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"OK" as a word accepts proposals, describes the world as satisfactory (but not good), provides conversational momentum, or even agrees (or disagrees)....

Eric H. Cline, "Love, War, and Diplomacy: The Discovery of the Amarna Letters and the Bronze Age World They Revealed" (Princeton UP, 2025)

12 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From the acclaimed author of 1177 B.C., a spellbinding account of the archaeological find that opened a window onto the vibrant diplomatic world of th...

Australia‘s National Indigenous Languages Survey

28 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Dr Alexandra Grey speaks with Zoe Avery, a Worimi woman and a Research Officer at the Centre for...

Mark Mazower, "On Antisemitism: A Word in History" (Penguin Press, 2025)

26 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What do we mean when we talk about antisemitism? A thoughtful, vital new intervention from the award-winning historian. For most of history, antisemit...

Iris Idelson-Shein, "Between the Bridge and the Barricade: Jewish Translation in Early Modern Europe" (U Penn Press, 2024)

25 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

One of the constants of Jewish history is that Jews have learned from the cultures around them. But this exchange of information was not an easy endea...

Delia Casadei, "Risible: Laughter without Reason and the Reproduction of Sound" (U California Press, 2024)

21 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Risible: Laughter without Reason and the Reproduction of Sound (University of California Press, 2024) explores the forgotten history of laughter, fro...

Amanda Belantara and Emily Drabinski, "Ways of Knowing: Oral Histories on the Worlds Words Create" (Litwin Books, 2024)

05 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ways of Knowing: Oral Histories on the Worlds Words Create (Litwin Books, 2025) sits at the heart of the library project, shaping how materials are ...

Greg Lukianoff and Nadine Strossen, "The War on Words: 10 Arguments Against Free Speech—And Why They Fail" (Heresy Press, 2025)

02 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The War on Words: 10 Arguments Against Free Speech—And Why They Fail (Heresy Press, 2025) constitutes a bulwark against the persistent censorial e...

Karen Stollznow, "Bitch: The Journey of a Word" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

28 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Bitch is a bitch of a word. It used to be a straightforward insult, but today – after so many variations and efforts to reject or reclaim the word –...

Fiona J. Mackenzie, "The Cadence of a Song: The Life of Margaret Fay Shaw" (Birlinn, 2025)

25 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The American-born folklorist and musician Margaret Fay Shaw’s passion for the Hebrides led her to the island of South Uist in 1929 and then to Canna...

Arriving in a New Country

16 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick speaks writer, illustrator, filmmaker and Academy Award winner Shaun Tan. Shaun i...

Cold Rush

09 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Ingrid Piller speaks with Sari Pietikainen about her new book Cold Rush (Palgrave Macmillan,...

Sexual Imperialism and English Language Teaching

02 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Dr Hanna Torsh speaks with Dr Vaughan Rapatahana about sexual predation in the English language ...

Victoria Young, "Translation and the Borders of Contemporary Japanese Literature: Inciting Difference" (Routledge, 2024)

28 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Translation and the Borders of Contemporary Japanese Literature: Inciting Difference (Routledge, 2024) examines contemporary debates on such concept...

Intercultural Communication

26 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 be...

Rob Goodman, "Words on Fire: Eloquence and Its Conditions" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

19 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Why is political rhetoric broken – and how can it be fixed? Words on Fire: Eloquence and Its Conditions (Cambridge University Press, 2022) returns ...

Learning Ancient Languages: A Conversation with Antonia Ruppel

18 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sanskritist and seasoned teacher Dr. Antonia Ruppel shares her views on the merits and pitfalls of academic enterprise, the brave new world of self-...

Multilingual Practices and Monolingual Mindsets

17 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Jinhyun Cho. Dr. Cho has guested on this show previously, and sh...

Janet McIntosh, "Kill Talk: Language and Military Necropolitics" (Oxford UP, 2025)

09 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Even casual observers of the military will notice the unique ways that service members use language. With all of the acronyms and jargon, some even ar...

Zev Handel, "Chinese Characters Across Asia: How the Chinese Script Came to Write Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese" (U Washington Press, 2025)

03 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For centuries, scribes across East Asia used Chinese characters to write things down–even in languages based on very different foundations than Chin...

J. P. Mallory, "The Indo-Europeans Rediscovered: How a Scientific Revolution Is Rewriting Their Story" (Thames & Hudson, 2025)

27 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today the number of native speakers of Indo-European languages across the world is approximated to be over 2.6 billion—about 45 percent of the Earth...

Improving Quality of Care for Patients with Limited English

25 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Leah Karliner. Dr. Karliner is Professor in Residence in the Divi...

Tie Ning, Annelise Finegan trans., "My Sister's Red Shirt" (Sinoist Books, 2025)

25 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Growing up in a glittering new decade of possibility, Anran is radically different to her sister. Outspoken and idealistic, she relishes in challengin...

Nicholas de Lange, "Japheth in the Tents of Shem: Greek Bible Translations in Byzantine Judaism" (Mohr Siebeck, 2016)

22 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Japheth in the Tents of Shem: Greek Bible Translations in Byzantine Judaism (Mohr Siebeck, 2016) is the first book-length treatment of the reception...

Dominik Zechner, "The Violence of Reading: Literature and Philosophy at the Threshold of Pain" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)

20 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Violence of Reading: Literature and Philosophy at the Threshold of Pain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) expounds the scene of reading as one that pro...

David Crystal, "Bookish Words and Their Surprising Stories" (Bodleian Library, 2025)

20 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In Bookish Words & their Surprising Stories (Bodleian, 2025) by Dr. David Crystal, explore how books have played a pivotal role in the history of En...

Chinese in Qatar

18 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah speaks with Dr. Sara Hillman, Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and Engli...

Accents, Complex Identities, and Politics

11 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Nicole Holliday. Dr. Holliday is a sociophonetician and Associate...

Amie Souza Reilly, "Human/Animal: A Bestiary in Essays" (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2025)

09 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Amie Souza Reilly bought an old house in the suburbs. She had just gotten remarried and was looking forward to a new start with her new husband and he...

Speaking Philosophically: Communication at the Limits of Discursive Reason

08 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Tom joins us to discuss his book Speaking Philosophically: Communication at the Limits of Discursive Reason (Bloomsbury, 2023). Western philosophy ...

Paola De Santo and Caterina Mongiat Farina, (eds. and trans.) Isabella Andreini, "Letters" (Iter Press, 2023)

07 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Isabella Andreini, Letters, ed. and trans. Paola De Santo and Caterina Mongiat Farina. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Iter Press of the Un...

Is Beach Safety Signage Fit For Purpose?

04 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We often take the meaning of signs for granted but that's far from the case in a linguistically and culturally diverse society. The instruction to "Sw...

Jana Dambrogio and Daniel Starza Smith, "Letterlocking: The Hidden History of the Letter" (MIT Press, 2025)

29 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Before the invention of the gummed envelope in the 1830s, how did people secure their private letters? The answer is letterlocking—the ingenious pro...

Laura Otis, "Banned Emotions: How Metaphors Can Shape What People Feel" (Oxford UP, 2019)

27 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Who benefits and who loses when emotions are described in particular ways? How do metaphors such as "hold on" and "let go" affect people's emotional e...

Timothy A. Lee, "The Syriac Peshiṭta Bible: The New Testament" (Gorgias Press, 2023)

17 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is the first Syriac reader for the New Testament. It guides the reader through the Syriac New Testament Peshitta, glossing the uncommon words and...

Zev J. Handel, "Chinese Characters Across Asia: How the Chinese Script Came to Write Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese" (U Washington Press, 2025)

03 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

While other ancient nonalphabetic scripts—Sumerian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and Mayan hieroglyphs—are long extinct, Chinese characters, in...

The Case for ASL Instruction for Hearing Heritage Signers

28 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Emily Pacheco speaks with Associate Professor Su Kyong Isakson (Community College of Baltimor...

Laura Spinney, "Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

27 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Star. Stjarna. Setareh. Thousands of miles apart, humans look up at the night sky and use the same word to describe what they see. Listen to these Eng...

Lorna Gibb, "Rare Tongues: The Secret Stories of Hidden Languages" (Princeton UP, 2025)

26 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

An enthralling tour of the world’s rarest and most endangered languages Languages and cultures are becoming increasingly homogenous, with the result...

Christian Ilbury, "Researching Language and Digital Communication" (Routledge, 2025)

20 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Brynn Quick speaks with Dr Christian Ilbury about his new book, Researching Language and Digital Communication: A Student Guide, published by Rout...

Yellowlees Douglas, "Writing for the Reader's Brain: A Science-Based Guide" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

16 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What makes one sentence easy to read and another a slog that demands re-reading? Where do you put information you want readers to recall? Drawing on c...

Mara Nicosia, "Syriac Lexis and Lexica: Compiling Ancient and Modern Vocabularies" (Gorgias Press, 2024)

14 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Syriac Lexis and Lexica: Compiling Ancient and Modern Vocabularies (Gorgias Press, 2024) publishes the papers presented at the round table on Syriac...

Gestures and Emblems: A Discussion with Lauren Gawne

13 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Lauren Gawne, about cross-cultural variation in gesture use. In this episode, Brynn and Lauren discuss a paper that Laur...

Ryan M. Nefdt, "The Philosophy of Theoretical Linguistics: A Contemporary Outlook" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

10 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Between the study of specific languages and the philosophy of language lies what Ryan Nefdt calls a “Goldilocks zone” of theoretical issues relate...

Joseph J. Diorio, "A Few Words about Words" (Beaufort Books, 2021)

07 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Written by a self-taught grammarian, A Few Words About Words (Beaufort Books, 2021) offers an accessible and engaging guide to mastering the English...

Lingua Napoletana and Language Oppression

06 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Have you ever heard of Lingua Napoletana or Neapolitan, the language of Naples? In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah s...

Ian Rapley, "Green Star Japan: Esperanto and the International Language Question, 1880–1945" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)

01 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ian Rapley’s Green Star Japan: Esperanto and the International Language Question, 1880-1945 (U Hawaii Press, 2024) is a sociopolitical history of ...

Genevieve Guenther, "The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It" (Oxford UP, 2024)

19 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Language of Climate Politics (Oxford UP, 2024) offers readers new ways to talk about the climate crisis that will help get fossil fuels out of o...

Intercultural Competence in the Digital Age

11 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Brynn Quick speaks with Dr Amy McHugh, an Academic Facilitator at the National Centre for Cultural Competence at the University of Sydney. Dr McHugh...

Emma Borg and Sarah A. Fisher, "Meaning: a Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2024)

09 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our ability to find meaning in things is one of the most important aspects of human life. But it is also one of the most mysterious. Where does meanin...

Multilingual Law-Making: A Discussion with Karen McAuliffe

04 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Alexandra Grey speaks with Karen McAuliffe about multilingual law-making. Karen is a Professor of Law and Language at Birmingham Law School in the ...

Educational Inequality in Fijian Higher Education

25 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the Language-on-the-Move podcast, Dr Hanna Torsh speaks with Dr Prashneel Ravisan Goundar about his new book, English Language...

Constantine R. Campbell, "Basics of Verbal Aspect in Biblical Greek" (Zondervan Academic, 2024)

25 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Verbal aspect in the Greek language has been a topic of significant debate in recent scholarship. The majority of scholars now believe that an underst...

Multilingual Crisis Communication

21 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah speaks with Dr. Jia Li, Professor of Applied Sociolinguistics at Yunnan Universi...

The Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet

14 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah speaks with Dr. Gerald Roche, Associate Professor in the Department of Politics,...

S4E20 Cosmic Connections: A Conversation with Charles Taylor

08 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week on Madison’s Notes, we sit down with philosopher and author Charles Taylor to discuss his latest work, Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the...

Andrew S. Latham, "Hey! Listen!: Hypertext Rhetoric and The Legend of Zelda" (McFarland, 2024)

05 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How does analyzing video games as hypertexts expand the landscape of research for video game rhetoricians and games studies scholars? This is the firs...

Language Rights in a Changing China

31 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Alexandra Grey about Dr. Grey’s book entitled Language Right...

Whiteness, Accents, and Children's Media

24 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the Language on the Move podcast, Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Laura Smith-Khan about language and accents in children’s med...

Creaky Voice in Australian English

17 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Hannah White, a Postdoc researcher at Macquarie University in the ...

Fatima Rajina, "British Bangladeshi Muslims in the East End: The Changing Landscape of Dress and Language" (Manchester UP, 2024)

30 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Popular discourse around British Muslims has often been dominated by a focus on Muslim women and their sartorial choices, particularly the hijab and n...

Supporting Multilingual Families to Engage with their Children’s Schooling

19 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How can school communications become more accessible to multilingual families? In this episode of the Language on the Move podcast, Dr Agnes Bodis ...

Linguistic Diversity as a Bureaucratic Challenge

15 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How do street-level bureaucrats in Austria’s public service deal with linguistic diversity? In this episode of the Language on the Move podcast, ...

Hannah Pollin-Galay, "Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)

15 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Holocaust radically altered the way many East European Jews spoke Yiddish. Finding prewar language incapable of describing the imprisonment, death...