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Blogbeitrag#114. Februar 2024

Global Language Justice – review

Blog: Impact of Social Sciences

In Global Language Justice, Lydia H. Liu and Anupama Rao bring together contributions at the intersection of language, justice and technology, exploring topics including ecolinguistics, colonial legacies and the threat digitisation poses to marginalised languages. Featuring multilingual poetry and theoretically rich essays, the collection provides fresh humanities perspectives on the value of preserving linguistic diversity, writes Andrew Shorten. This blogpost originally appeared … Continued

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Blogbeitrag#24. März 2024

Nobody Speaks Those Languages

Blog: American Enterprise Institute – AEI

Throughout history, some languages have greatly increased their number of speakers and others have died. That said, when a language disappears, we lose information about what it means to be human.
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Blogbeitrag#322. Januar 2024

An Influential Scholar of Language

Blog: American Enterprise Institute – AEI

John McWhorter, arguably one of the most consequential academics in the country and the most consequential linguist, might as well not exist as far as the academic linguistic establishment is concerned. Has anyone pointed out that academia is in trouble?
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Blogbeitrag#428. Januar 2024

Book Review | Global Language Justice

Blog: USAPP

In Global Language Justice, Lydia H. Liu and Anupama Rao bring together contributions at the intersection of language, justice and technology, exploring topics including ecolinguistics, colonial legacies and the threat digitisation poses to marginalised languages. Featuring multilingual poetry and theoretically rich essays, the collection provides fresh humanities perspectives on the value of preserving linguistic diversity, writes Andrew Shorten. Global Language Justice. Lydia … Continued

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Blogbeitrag#520. Juli 2023

The Politics of Language in Algerian Education

Blog: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace - sada

Recent government decisions to expand English language instruction in Algerian schools, though seemingly educational in nature, are only the latest developments in a longstanding national dispute.

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Blogbeitrag#610. April 2024

Taiwan's language diversity in danger of erosion

Blog: Global Voices

As a country that experienced successive waves of colonization imposed on a diverse Indigenous population, Taiwan is a multilingual society but power relations among languages are far from equal.

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Blogbeitrag#722. August 2023

Volokh on Large Language Models and Defamation

Blog: Legal Theory Blog

Eugene Volokh (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law) has posted Large Libel Models? Liability for AI Output (3 J. Free Speech L. 489 (2023)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: "Large Language Model" AI programs routinely...

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Blogbeitrag#814. September 2023

Quebec's Language Restrictions Limit Freedom of Expression

Blog: Reason.com

One Montreal restaurant was cited for having "fish and chips" on its menu.

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Blogbeitrag#922. Februar 2024

Which local language is most widely spoken in Togo?

Blog: Global Voices

Georgia Popplewell

Georgia Popplewell

Officially, Togo has two national languages: Éwé and Kabyé. But neither of those is the language that's most widely spoken in the country.

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Blogbeitrag#1012. September 2023

Charlotin on Large Language Models and Legal Practice

Blog: Legal Theory Blog

Damien Charlotin (HEC, Paris) has posted Large Language Models and the Future of Law on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have crashed into the scene in late 2022, with ChatGPT in particular bringing to the mainstream...

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Blogbeitrag#118. April 2024

What role for the French language in Togolese society?

Blog: Global Voices

Jean-Christophe Brunet

Jean-Christophe Brunet

Togo adopted French as its official language in 1960, a fact enshrined in the constitution. But what is the role of this language in a diverse linguistic landscape?

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Blogbeitrag#1226. Juni 2023

How Africans are bridging the language digital divide

Blog: Global Voices

About 20 years ago, 80 percent of the world's online content was in English. Currently W3Tech estimates that 54.9 percent of websites with known content languages use English.

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Blogbeitrag#136. September 2023

How Kurdish language divisions hinder access to information

Blog: Global Voices

The ongoing disputes among Kurdish languages and their lack of standardization create obstacles to accessing online information, impedes the flow of information, and curtails active participation in the digital realm.

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Blogbeitrag#1412. April 2024

The role of language in perpetuating sexual violence in Uganda

Blog: Global Voices

Minority Africa

Minority Africa

Several traditions and words used in the country, which are deeply rooted in culture, inadvertently contribute to narratives that perpetuate sexual and gender-based violence.

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Blogbeitrag#1514. April 2023

What it means to speak foreign languages in a job

Blog: Asianpolyglotview

What does being good at a foreign language mean for financial freedom? A foreign language can be a weapon that can differentiate oneself and increases the stability of labor income

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