About Language on the Move

Language on the Move is a podcast about linguistic diversity in social life. Produced and edited by Ingrid Piller and Brynn Quick, our aim is to have in-depth and fun conversations with key thinkers about multilingualism, language learning, and intercultural communication in the contexts of globalization and migration.

To find out more about the Language on the Move research team at Macquarie University, follow our research blog, or find us on Twitter/X, Bluesky, Facebook, and YouTube.

Language on the Move is a podcast about linguistic diversity in social life. Produced and edited by Ingrid Piller and Brynn Quick, our aim is to have in-depth and fun conversations with key thinkers about multilingualism, language learning, and intercultural communication in the contexts of globalization and migration.

To find out more about the Language on the Move research team at Macquarie University, follow our research blog, or find us on Twitter/X, Bluesky, Facebook, and YouTube.

NBN Episodes hosted by Language:

Supporting Multilingual Families to Engage with their Children’s Schooling

November 19, 2024

Supporting Multilingual Families to Engage with their Children’s Schooling

Agnes Bodis

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

Judging Refugees: Narrative and Oral Testimony in Refugee Status Determination

October 30, 2024

Judging Refugees

Anthea Vogl

Dr Laura Smith-Khan speaks with Dr Anthea Vogl about her new book, Judging Refugees: Narrative and Oral Testimony in Refugee Status Determination (Cam…

How Did Arabic Get on That Sign?

October 26, 2024

How Did Arabic Get on That Sign?

Rizwan Ahmad

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah speaks with Dr. Rizwan Ahmad, Professor of Sociolinguistics in the Department of E…

Migration, Constraints, and Suffering: A Discussion with Marco Santello

October 12, 2024

Migration, Constraints, and Suffering

Marco Santello

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 Ma…

Transnational Communicative Care

October 6, 2024

Transnational Communicative Care

Lynnette Arnold

How do families care for each when they are divided over generations by powerful geopolitical forces beyond their control? In this episode, Hanna Tors…

Police First Responders Interacting with Domestic Violence Victims

September 27, 2024

Police First Responders Interacting with Domestic Violence Victims

Tazin Abdullah and Kate Steel

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah speaks with Dr. Kate Steel, Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of the West …

Remembering Barbara Horvath: A Discussion with Livia Gerber

September 20, 2024

Remembering Barbara Horvath

Barbara Horvath and Livia Gerber

The sociolinguistics community, particularly in Australia and the US, mourns the recent passing of pioneering sociolinguist Barbara Horvath. To honor …

Jinhyun Cho, "English Language Ideologies in Korea: Interpreting the Past and Present" (Springer, 2017)

September 6, 2024

English Language Ideologies in Korea

Jinhyun Cho

Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Jinhyun Cho, Senior Lecturer in the Translation and Interpreting Program of the Department of Linguistics at Macquarie Uni…

Sign Language Brokering in Deaf-Hearing Families

July 29, 2024

Sign Language Brokering in Deaf-Hearing Families

Jemina Napier

Emily Pacheco speaks with Professor Jemina Napier (Heriot-Watt University, Scotland) about her book, Sign Language Brokering in Deaf-Hearing Families …

Muslim Literacies in China

July 23, 2024

Muslim Literacies in China

Ibrar Bhatt

Tazin Abdullah speaks with Dr Ibrar Bhatt about heritage literacies, particularly as they are practiced by Chinese Muslims. Bhatt is the author of A S…

Life in a New Language, Part 6: Citizenship

July 17, 2024

Life in a New Language

Emily Farrell

This episode of the Language on the Move Podcast is part of the Life in a New Language series. Life in a New Language is a new book just out from Oxfo…

Life in a New Language, Part 5: Monolingual Mindset

July 10, 2024

Life in a New Language

Loy Lising

This episode of the Language on the Move Podcast is part of the Life in a New Language series. Life in a New Language is a new book just out from Oxfo…

Language Policy at an Abortion Clinic: A Discussion with Ella van Hest

July 4, 2024

Language Policy at an Abortion Clinic

Ella van Hest

Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Ella van Hest (Ghent University, Belgium) about her ethnographic research related to language diversity at an abortion cli…

Life in a New Language, Part 4: Parenting

July 3, 2024

Life in a New Language

Shiva Motaghi Tabari

This episode of the Language on the Move Podcast is part of the Life in a New Language series. Life in a New Language is a new book just out from Oxfo…

Life in a New Language, Part 3: African Migrants

June 26, 2024

Life in a New Language

Vera Williams Tetteh

This episode of the Language on the Move Podcast is part of the Life in a New Language series. Life in a New Language is a new book just out from Oxfo…

Life in a New Language, Part 2: Work

June 19, 2024

Life in a New Language

Ingrid Piller et al.

This episode of the Language on the Move Podcast is part of the Life in a New Language series. Life in a New Language (Oxford UP, 2024) is a new book …

Life in a New Language, Part 1: Identities

June 12, 2024

Life in a New Language

Donna Butorac

This episode of the Language on the Move Podcast is part of the Life in a New Language series. Life in a New Language is a new book just out from Oxfo…

Gretchen McCulloch, "Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language" (Riverhead Books, 2020)

June 1, 2024

Because Internet

Gretchen McCulloch

Brynn Quick speaks with best-selling author and linguist Gretchen McCulloch about her 2019 New York Times bestselling book Because Internet: Understan…

Jessica Leigh Kirkness, "The House with All the Lights on: Three Generations, One Roof, a Language of Light" (Allen & Unwin, 2023)

May 31, 2024

The House with All the Lights on

Jessica Leigh Kirkness

Emily Pacheco speaks with writer and researcher Jessica Kirkness about her memoir, The House with All the Lights on: Three Generations, One Roof, a La…

Community and Heritage Languages Schools Transforming Education

May 6, 2024

Community and Heritage Languages Schools Transforming Education

Ken Cruickshank, Joseph Lo Bianco, and Merryl Wahlin

Today we talked to Joseph Lo Bianco about the edited volume Community and Heritage Languages Schools Transforming Education (Routledge, 2023). The con…

The Shanghai Alliance of Multilingual Researchers

May 1, 2024

The Shanghai Alliance of Multilingual Researchers

Yongyan Zheng

Yixi (Isabella) Qiu speaks with Professor Yongyan Zheng about The Shanghai Alliance of Multilingual Researchers. The interview explores the Alliance’…

Multilingual Commanding Urgency from Garbage to COVID-19

April 27, 2024

Multilingual Commanding Urgency from Garbage to COVID-19

Michael Chesnut

Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Michael Chesnut, Professor in the Department of English for International Conferences and Communication at Hankuk Universi…

Elizabeth Peterson, "Making Sense of 'Bad English': An Introduction to Language Attitudes and Ideologies" (Routledge, 2019)

April 12, 2024

Making Sense of "Bad English"

Elizabeth Peterson

Brynn Quick speaks with Dr Elizabeth Peterson about language ideologies and what we think when we hear different varieties of English. The conversati…

Reducing Barriers to Language Assistance in Hospital

March 25, 2024

Reducing Barriers to Language Assistance in Hospital

Erin Mulpur

Brynn Quick speaks with Erin Mulpur about how hospitals can better support patients from linguistic minority backgrounds. The conversation addresses t…