Linguistic Diversity in a Time of Crisis
Channel: Language on the Move
Date: 14/11/2020

In this lecture, Distinguished Professor Ingrid Piller (Macquarie University) discusses the language, communication and literacy challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic. 

The lecture was delivered to the 50th Anniversary Meeting of the Finnish Association of Applied Linguistics on Nov 12, 2020.

The pandemic may well constitute the greatest global mass communication challenge in human history. Internationally, linguistic minorities have often been neglected and their access to timely high-quality information from sources they trust has been limited. 

The lecture provides an overview of research published in a special issue of the international sociolinguistics journal "Multilingua" devoted to "Linguistic Diversity in a Time of Crisis." The special issue can be accessed at https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/mult/39/5/mult.39.issue-5.xml