The Myth of the Monolingual Nation: How Linguistic Uniformity Became a Political Project
How states built the fiction that one nation requires one language—and why it still shapes policy today
Language Death and Revival: What Determines Whether Languages Survive
Why some endangered languages revive while others fall silent—and what the difference reveals
Mother-Tongue Education: The Evidence for First-Language Instruction
Why the strongest path to a second language runs through the one children already speak
The Politics of Script Choice: Why Alphabets Are Never Neutral
From Turkey's revolutionary alphabet to Mongolia's script revival, writing systems reveal deep contests over cultural belonging and political power.
Code-Switching as Strategic Performance: The Cognitive and Social Labor of Multilingual Navigation
The sophisticated social strategy behind switching languages—and the invisible labor it demands
Linguistic Gentrification: How Urban Change Erases Neighborhood Language Ecologies
When neighborhoods gentrify, the languages spoken on their streets often disappear long before the last speaker moves away.
Heritage Language Education: What Works Beyond Saturday Schools
Research reveals why some heritage language programs produce fluency while others create only fond memories
The Standard Language Myth: How Linguistic Hierarchies Get Constructed
The varieties we call 'correct' weren't discovered—they were chosen, and the choosing wasn't neutral.
Language Ideology: The Beliefs That Shape Linguistic Inequality
Why our beliefs about language matter more than language itself in creating social hierarchies
Linguistic Imperialism: How Languages Spread Through Power Not Merit
Why English dominates global communication says more about colonialism than about linguistic quality
Linguistic Citizenship: Rethinking Belonging Beyond National Language
Why speaking the majority language shouldn't determine who gets to belong
Linguistic Landscapes: Reading Power in Public Signage
What public signs reveal about language hierarchies, community presence, and the politics of whose words belong in shared space
The Sociolinguistics of Social Media: Digital Communication and Language Change
How platform design, algorithmic systems, and digital access reshape the relationship between linguistic diversity and social power in networked communication.
Diglossia and Its Discontents: Living With High-Low Language Splits
Understanding how societies maintain language hierarchies reveals pathways toward more equitable linguistic arrangements
Language and Gender: How Linguistic Practices Construct and Contest Gender Hierarchies
Understanding why changing how women speak misses the point—and what actually dismantles linguistic discrimination
Language Testing as Gatekeeping: The Hidden Bias in Proficiency Assessment
How proficiency tests embed cultural assumptions that systematically exclude qualified speakers and determine life outcomes under the guise of neutral measurement.
Why Official Language Policies Often Backfire: The Paradox of Linguistic Intervention
Understanding why top-down linguistic engineering triggers the opposite of intended effects—and what actually works for language vitality.
Why Minority Languages Disappear Even When Communities Want to Keep Them
Understanding why economic pressure, institutional exclusion, and interrupted home transmission overpower community wishes to preserve heritage languages—and what actually works to reverse it.
The Hidden Curriculum of Accent: How Speech Patterns Gate Social Mobility
Exploring how accent-based judgments function as invisible gatekeepers in hiring, education, and advancement—and what can shift these linguistic hierarchies
Language Rights as Human Rights: The Emerging International Framework
How international law is slowly building protections for minority languages—and why communities must strategize beyond legal frameworks alone