Senior Lecturer, School of Languages and Linguistics, The University of Melbourne
Olga Maxwell is a Senior Lecturer in ESL and Applied Linguistics in the School of Languages and Linguistics. She works on bi-/multilingualism, intonation modelling, acoustic phonetics, English as second language, varieties of English in multilingual societies, prosodic variation, language contact, and language attitudes.
In Russia's war against Ukraine, one of the battlegrounds is language itself
Mar 28, 2023 14:11 pm UTC| Insights & Views
More and more Ukrainians are switching from speaking Russian to speaking Ukrainian. In the media, this language shift is frequently portrayed as recent, dating back to the Russian invasion of February 2022. But the...
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