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COVID-19 has intensified existing intergenerational and gender tensions in China’s cities

  • Bin Wang & Ilan Wiesel,

Interviews illustrate how the pandemic and public health restrictions brought existing tensions to a boiling point.

Language is important in the prosecution of conflicts, particularly in the Middle East

  • Professor Yasir Suleiman,

Language provides an echo chamber for political conflict through its role as a symbol that conveys extra-linguistic meanings.

INTRODUCTION: The contemporary challenges facing plurilingual societies

  • Associate Professor Michael Ewing,

The power structures needed to create and enforce common systems of communication can simultaneously disadvantage others.

Taiwan transitions and tribal tongues: From the language of reconciliation to the revitalisation of language?

  • Dr Brett Todd,

Taiwan’s indigenous languages have suffered under various colonial regimes. Can they be revived?

Pakistan should properly adopt Urdu as its national language to help overcome inequality

  • Dr Hussain Mohi-ud-Din Qadri,

Nations advance materially, economically and scientifically when they educate students in their national language.

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