Abhi Sharma

Get ready for LPF2026

BAAL Language Policy group Welcome to the Language Policy special interest group of the British Association for Applied Linguistics. The Language Policy (LP) SIG provides a forum to discuss, critically engage with, and research...

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Do you like Spain?

Then apply for the Language Policy Forum 2026 in Spain!

22-23 April, @ucm.es

Venue details, plenary speakers, abstract deadline and submission form on our website: langpol.ac.uk. Go go go! 👇

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What about Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, Irish, Ulster Scots?

Looking forward to this

Cryolite: Denmark censors its colonial history The article is originally written in French. Over the past few days, DR, the Danish broadcasting corporation, has withdrawn the documentary Orsugiak: The White Gold of Greenland from its catalog. T…

While everyone's (rightly) condemning the US approach to Greenland, people romanticize Denmark's (colonial) relation to Greenland.

Earlier this year, this docu on Danish colonialism was censored from Danish TV, illustrating the strong forces of colonial denial.
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Congrats, @aksharma2019.bsky.social! Looking forward very much to reading it.

Make Indian Sign Language official language and open more schools for deaf and hard-of-hearing students, study advises Around one in five (over 19%) of India’s deaf and hard-of-hearing children were out-of-school in 2014, according to a survey conducted for the Indian

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The Scottish Languages Bill would likely make it unlawful to do what Falkirk Council proposed. If a council doesn't offer Gaelic education itself, it will have to support families to access it elsewhere. And it would have to show that altering transport arrangements would bring educational benefits

Very nice, Vijay! Congratulations 👏🎉

How does multilingual law-making work? In this podcast interview, Alexandra Grey explores multilingual law-making with Karen McAuliffe, a Professor of Law and Language at Birmingham Law School in the UK. The conversation is about the im…

How do linguistics and law intersect? Find out in this really engaging @languageonthemove.bsky.social podcast from Alexandra Grey, where she interviews Karen McAuliffe about multilingual law-making in Europe.
www.languageonthemove.com/how-does-mul...

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Review of my book 'Reconceptualising Power in LP' by David C. Johnson (published in Language Problems & Language Planning last week) @langpolicy.bsky.social
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