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Cold Rush

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Ingrid Piller speaks with Sari Pietikainen about her new book Cold Rush (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024). This book is an original study…

Ingrid PillerSeptember 9, 2025

Language and tourism

Language strategy in the hospitality sector

Language needs in the hospitality sector in Pallars Sobirà, Catalonia (Source: paddleinspain.com) Multilingualism means business. The more foreign language skills are availalble to a company, the better it will be…

Javier Cañas Villarreal and Lola Pérez ValdésJuly 15, 2014

Language and tourism

English in the Global Village

Yangshuo's West Street (Source: chinatravelca) Tourism has been found to be beneficial for minority language maintenance in a number of contexts from around the world. For instance, Anand Torrents Alcaraz…

Ingrid PillerJune 23, 2014

Language and tourism

Pallarès, Catalan, the Pyrenees and tourism in global times

Actress Noemí Busquets as the wise yet naughty Esperanceta Gassia at the Ecomuseu de les Valls d’Àneu during the theatrical night visit to the ethnographic museum of Esterri d’ Àneu…

Anand Torrents AlcarazMay 27, 2014

Language and tourism

English in Myanmar

English textbook used at the non-Government school “I take a bilingual approach, so you might not understand some parts of my class. But I hope you’ll enjoy it.” Dressed in…

Kimie Takahashi 高橋君江January 30, 2014

H.I.S Open Forum on Linguistic Diversity and Tourism Report

Language and tourism

H.I.S. Research and Industry Forum on Linguistic Diversity and Tourism in Amazing Thailand

Readers who missed the H.I.S. Research and Industry Forum on Linguistic Diversity and Tourism in Amazing Thailand on July 02, 2013 at Assumption University of Thailand in Bangkok can view the…

Language on the MoveJuly 7, 2013

Language and tourism

English for travel

Ad for ‘English for travel’ classes ( www.gaba.co.jp/ad) A few weeks ago, my family and I went to Jim Thompson’s special sales at BITEC in Bang Na, a short train…

Kimie Takahashi 高橋君江July 2, 2012

Language and tourism

Do you speak Swiss?

A most amazing book has just landed on my desk: Do you speak Swiss, edited by Walter Haas, is the final report on a Swiss National Research Project devoted to…

Ingrid PillerFebruary 14, 2011

Shop signs of hostess bars on Thaniya Road, Sala Daeng, Bangkok

Language and tourism

The dark side of intercultural communication

At 11pm at a Japanese ramen restaurant in Thaniya, Bangkok, a group of five middle-aged Japanese men and five young Thai women were dining right next to my table. It's…

Kimie Takahashi 高橋君江January 18, 2011

Language and tourism

Persepolis

I visited Persepolis today. Persepolis proved to be a great way to end the year and to reflect on the passage of time. More unexpectedly, Persepolis also proved to be…

Ingrid PillerJanuary 1, 2011

Language and tourism

English in Iran

Even a casual observer of the linguistic landscape in Iran will have to conclude that Iranians have a collective fetish for English. Almost all public signage is bilingual in English…

Ingrid PillerDecember 30, 2010

Language and tourism

Finding Switzerland in Japan

As a non-speaker and non-reader of Japanese I went to Japan fully expecting to be confused. However, the only confusing moment I experienced had nothing to do with anything Japanese:…

Ingrid PillerOctober 6, 2010

Language and tourism

More on orientalism and tourism

Language-on-the-Move's recent blog post Orientalism and Tourism engages with the way ethnic minority people in China are represented in the West (and also by the Han majority in China). Not only…

Yang HongyanAugust 4, 2010

Language and tourism

Orientalism and tourism

Nowhere is the persistence of Orientalist ways of viewing the non-Western Other so obvious than in tourism brochures, as I was reminded when reading an article titled “Game of Love,…

Chen Xiaoxiao 陈潇潇July 31, 2010

Language and tourism

New Swiss Christianity: Let’s build brothels

A few years ago I wrote a paper about the sexualization of public space in Switzerland. The paper will be published next year as “Sex in the City: On Making…

Ingrid PillerDecember 7, 2009

Cold Rush

Language strategy in the hospitality sector

English in the Global Village

Pallarès, Catalan, the Pyrenees and tourism in global times

English in Myanmar

H.I.S. Research and Industry Forum on Linguistic Diversity and Tourism in Amazing Thailand

English for travel

The dark side of intercultural communication

Persepolis

English in Iran

Finding Switzerland in Japan

More on orientalism and tourism

Orientalism and tourism

New Swiss Christianity: Let’s build brothels

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