Global public health #communication is characterized by the large-scale exclusion of linguistic minorities from timely high-quality #information#COVID19
What are the #language regimes behind these exclusions and what can sociolinguists do?
#Literacy is dynamic, continually developing and unfolds in new and unexpected ways. Learning the inception of #writing and its trajectory to the forms we use now has me excited to observe how literacy continues to develop in the future
I particularly was surprised by the fact that early prints were made to be similar to handwriting, I thought that was quite genius idea! Also, I liked the fact that printed #books were given to the people whose main job was to decorate them!
Listen up, boys and girls, because I'm going to tell you the story of the greatest inventors of all times: the inventors of #writing
Can you imagine a world without writing? No writing on screens, no writing on paper, no writing on stone, no writing on clay tables, nothing ...
To meet the inventors of #writing, we have to travel back in time a few thousand years to the first city states, such as Uruk, in what is today southern Iraq
Their newly emerging complex urban society needed a way to keep records of things like who had paid how much tax
This clay tablet provides an example of early #writing to record economic information. This tablet most likely documents grain distributed by a large temple
Can a universal concept of #Orientalism explain the diverse representation of non-Europeans by Europeans and the subsequent multiple forms of cultural engagement ranging from clashes to cooperation? @gegentuul
While we have become increasingly vigilant with regard to #discrimination based on race, gender, sexuality or disability, #linguistic disadvantage is far more difficult to recognize
During #Humboldt’s time, challenge for researchers was to develop new channels through which to communicate #knowledge. Today, challenge is for researchers to make their voices heard in the noise of social media communications 👉🏼dangerous #infodemic
"It takes 10 minutes of sitting on the phone to get an #interpreter, and that’s valuable time when you’re inundated. So this utilitarian calculus kicks in. And the patients that are most mainstream get the best care.”
In Episode 1, you will learn about the global #language hierarchy, and discover why a #multilingual person may not be able to say "take a shower" in all their #languages
The German Consul General Peter Silberberg @GermanyInOz will present the Awards of the Australian and New Zealand Associations of von #Humboldt Fellows @AvHStiftung#AvHMQ
