Language Rights & Language Justice

 If passed, the new measures will extend a French language mandate in Quebec to federally-regulated businesses and companies with 25-49 employees, an expansion from the law that previously applied to businesses with 50 or more employees. Read on here /.

  JNCL-NCLIS Statement on Racism and Systemic Inequality We envision a world where the Language Enterprise facilitates the free movement of people, information, and ideas; builds mutual understanding and acceptance of cultural and linguistic diversity; and promotes the personal development of the individual. Read on /. 

  Wednesday, June 3, 2020 - 2:28pm The LSA Executive Committee issued the following statement earlier this week:  Partipants at the 2020 Session on Black Becoming for Language  and Linguistics Researchers at the LSA Annual Meeting  The Linguistic Society of America asserts its collective support for Black members of our community — students, colleagues, family, friends and neighbors — who are carrying an extraordinarily painful burden during these already distressing times. The pandemic has highlighted the structural anti-Black violence and broader racial disparities endemic to our communities. Black lives are being lost at a disproportional rate as important life outcomes for Black citizens continue to be diminished. In recent months and days, we have seen murders of people of color by vigilante civilians and the police, and we have heard explicit devaluation of Black lives and legitimization of attacks against them from the highest levels. We have also seen, ...