My research is ethically concerned with how higher education and neoliberal markets are reducing language understanding to quantifiable and documentable proficiencies. I argue that this restricted view of language governs and regulates language users/learners, especially those with migration and multilingual backgrounds, in their use of languages and access to higher education. Furthermore, I philosophically explore how language users/learners can break free from this prescribed language governance and open other dimensions of language by incorporating poststructural and posthuman thoughts.