Linguistic diversity in social life
Tweets mostly by Ingrid Piller, Distinguished Professor @macquarie_uni
#DancingWithStrangers is a story of confusion and ignorance of #culture #language, aspirations, traditions and #law
Learning about message sticks is my favorite. When thinking about message sticks from a #literacies perspective, they seem very modern.
In #Arabic we say: “Footprints indicate trajectory”, but I never thought that a wheel would reveal a culture. This is how #cultures can be traced through #languages. The reading made me feel like I am solving a puzzle more than exploring languages. 
#StarTrek #language and #communication fun fact:
Global public health #communication is characterized by the large-scale exclusion of linguistic minorities from timely high-quality #information #COVID19 
#Languages that use the #Latin script have official or co-official status in many countries around the world 
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
#Multilingua @dg_mouton is currently strengthening its focus on #LanguagePolicy. To this end, two experts on #language and #law have joined our editorial board: @Alex_Grey_ @SydneyLawSchool and @LauraSKh @UTSLaw 
During #Humboldt’s time, scientific inquiry and rational thought became foundational to the constitution of #knowledge. Today, we see the relegation of #science to one opinion among many, in debates over matters
Ingrid Piller @MQLinguistics reflects on #Humboldt’s legacy as a #research communicator and identifies
Historian Bryan Turner asks how #COVID19 will define our generation
The above is on top of ongoing call for research blogposts related to #language challenges raised by #Coronavirus epidemic on languageonthemove.com
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