Language on the Move

How can school communications become more accessible to multilingual families? In this episode of the Language on the Move podcast, Dr Agnes Bodis [https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/persons/agi-bodis] talks to Professor Margaret Kettle [https://staff-profiles.cqu.edu.au/home/view/26363] about the Multilingual Glossary of School-based Terms [https://research.qut.edu.au/multilingualschoolglossary/welcome/]. This is list of school-related terms selected and translated to help multilingual families connect with schools. The research-based glossary was developed jointly with the Queensland Department of Education, Education Queensland school personnel, Multicultural Australia, and community group members and families. For additional resources, show notes, and transcripts, go here [https://www.languageonthemove.com/podcast/]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

How do street-level bureaucrats in Austria’s public service deal with linguistic diversity? In this episode of the Language on the Move podcast, Ingrid Piller [https://www.languageonthemove.com/ingrid-piller/] speaks with Dr Clara Holzinger [https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/persons/clara-holzinger] (University of Vienna) about her PhD research investigating how employment officers deal with the day-to-day communication challenges arising when clients have low levels of German language proficiency. For additional resources, show notes, and transcripts, go here [https://www.languageonthemove.com/podcast/]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Dr Laura Smith-Khan [https://www.une.edu.au/staff-profiles/law/Dr-Laura-Smith-Khan_Profile] speaks with Dr Anthea Vogl [https://profiles.uts.edu.au/anthea.vogl] about her new book, Judging Refugees: Narrative and Oral Testimony in Refugee Status Determination [https://bookshop.org/a/12343/9781108831857] (Cambridge UP, 2024). The conversation introduces listeners to the procedures involved in seeking asylum in the global north and how language is implicated throughout these processes. Discussing Dr Vogl’s new book and research, the podcast explores the difficult narrative demands these processes place on those seeking asylum, and the sociopolitical context underlying them. It reflects on the contributions scholars across disciplines have made and can make to law and policy reform, informing best practice, and advocating for more just systems. For additional resources, show notes, and transcripts, go here [https://www.languageonthemove.com/podcast/]. Follow Laura Smith-Khan on Bluesky [https://bsky.app/profile/lauraskh.bsky.social] and Twitter [https://twitter.com/DrLauraSKh]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah [https://www.languageonthemove.com/author/tazin/] speaks with Dr. Rizwan Ahmad [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=4skfwGEAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra], Professor of Sociolinguistics in the Department of English Literature and Linguistics in the College of Arts and Sciences at Qatar University in Doha. We discuss aspects of the Linguistic Landscape, focusing on Rizwan’s research into how Arabic is used on public signs and street names in Qatar, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India. The conversation delves into the use of Arabic in both Arabic-speaking and non-Arabic-speaking contexts for different purposes. Rizwan explains how variations in grammar, font, and script combined with the distinct social contexts of different countries produces distinctive meanings in relation to culture and identity. For additional resources, show notes, and transcripts, go here [https://www.languageonthemove.com/podcast/]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

A key part of the experience of migration is not being in full control of one’s circumstances and doing. In this episode, Ingrid Piller speaks with Marco Santello [https://www.studium.unito.it/do/docenti.pl/ShowFile?_id=masantel;field=cv;key=9j7TxBagQIESYhhNvp5CI;t=0220] about his research with Gambian migrants in Italy. The focus is on Marco’s recent article in Language in Society about migrant experiences of constraints and suffering. For additional resources, show notes, and transcripts, go here [https://www.languageonthemove.com/podcast/]. Reference: Santello, M. (2024). Constraints, suffering, and surfacing repertoires among Gambian migrants in Italy [https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404524000423]. Language in Society, 1-23. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]