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Alles in Ordnung? Reflections on German order

"Sauberkeit" ("cleanliness") - another of those key cultural concepts Everyone who has learned a second language will have noticed that certain words and expressions cannot be translated easily from one…

Rahel CramerFebruary 10, 2016

Intercultural communication

Ways of seeing

January 26, Australia Day: whether you are celebrating depends on your perspective (Source: news.com.au) Here in Australia we celebrated our national holiday yesterday. Australia Day marks the end of the…

Ingrid PillerJanuary 27, 2016

Intercultural communication

“Made in Germany” at risk? Volkswagen and the German trademark

Do clouds over VW equal clouds over Germany? The Volkswagen (VW) emissions scandal has received significant media coverage in and outside of Germany. Besides accounts of the developments that led…

Rahel CramerOctober 28, 2015

Intercultural communication

Intercultural Communication Training for Translators

"A translator's profession can never only entail rendering meaning from one language to another but always involves translating from one culture to another" (www.pictllp.eu/) The ever-more globalised world of today…

Daniel Tomozeiu, Kaisa Koskinen and Adele D'ArcangeloApril 29, 2015

Intercultural communication

The long conversation: Australia and China

Australia-China Youth Dialogue 2014 I recently returned from the Australia China Youth Dialogue in Beijing, my head buzzing with new ideas. The Dialogue promotes “more sophisticated cross-cultural understanding among Australian…

Alexandra GreyFebruary 18, 2015

Intercultural communication

English at the Olympics

Many people would agree that English is the language of globalization. English is almost always adopted as the official language of international events, including the Olympic Games. It does not…

Kimie Takahashi 高橋君江February 26, 2014

Intercultural communication

Inventing languages

Excerpt from "The Haunted Lotus" by Australian-Hazara artist Khadim Ali (Source: Milani Gallery) An objection that is commonly raised against Esperanto and other auxiliary languages is that they are “invented.”…

Ingrid PillerFebruary 13, 2014

Intercultural communication

Emergency service provision in linguistically diverse societies

The challenges of providing equitable services in linguistically diverse societies A few years ago, emergency service provision to speakers of languages other than English in Australia came under scrutiny when…

Ingrid PillerFebruary 6, 2014

MARIKO WATANABE AND INGRID PILLER CELEBRATE THEIR REUNION AT YACCOMARICARD IN CHIT LOM

Intercultural communication

Communicating passion for fashion

Mariko Watanabe and Ingrid Piller celebrate their reunion at Yaccomaricard in Chit Lom This post is also available in pdf-format. Click here. In early July, YM Fashion’s CEO Mariko Watanabe…

Kimie Takahashi 高橋君江October 11, 2013

Intercultural communication

Polish cemetery in Tehran

Polish refugee section of the Catholic cemetery in Tehran When Kimie Takahashi and myself interviewed participants for Japanese on the Move, our video exhibition of transnational life-stories, one of our…

Ingrid PillerJune 3, 2013

Intercultural communication

Exclusion on campus

If you google images for "study abroad," you get many pictures of inclusive-looking racially-diverse groups of people such as this one. A persistent theme in research with international students in…

Ingrid PillerMarch 19, 2013

Intercultural communication

To English with Love

Kimie Takahashi (2013) Language learning, gender and desire: Japanese women on the move. Multilingual Matters. It’s Valentine’s Day today. Valentine’s Day is a truly global event inextricably linking the emotional…

Ingrid PillerFebruary 14, 2013

Intercultural communication Language learning

Where are you from?

The Adelaide delegation at this year's Esperanto conference. Indrani is in the front right. When we meet new people we often ask straight away: where are you from? For many…

Nicole ElseFebruary 6, 2013

Intercultural communication

The exotic Chinese language

Chinese: What does the Chinese language mean to Western tourists visiting China? Ingrid’s blog post “Character challenge” has set me thinking about Chinese language learning these days. I have found…

Chen Xiaoxiao 陈潇潇January 4, 2013

Intercultural communication

Don’t speak!

Carl Rohling, The Teplitz incidence. Goethe (left) draws his hat and bows to the imperial party while Beethoven (front-center) strides on Over the holidays, I’ve had the opportunity to read…

Ingrid PillerJanuary 2, 2013

Intercultural communication

Conversations in Hong Kong

Professor Adam Jaworski and intercultural communication students at the University of Hong Kong It is one of the joys of having written a book like Intercultural Communication that readers like…

Ingrid PillerNovember 28, 2012

Alles in Ordnung? Reflections on German order

Ways of seeing

“Made in Germany” at risk? Volkswagen and the German trademark

Intercultural Communication Training for Translators

The long conversation: Australia and China

Inventing languages

Communicating passion for fashion

Polish cemetery in Tehran

To English with Love

Where are you from?

The exotic Chinese language

Don’t speak!

Conversations in Hong Kong

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