Language on the Move

Intercultural communication

Divine linguistic diversity

Divine linguistic diversity I’ve spent the past two days convening the first-ever Language-on-the-Move workshop at the University of Tehran. The idea was to explore language contact and multilingualism in the…

Ingrid PillerDecember 23, 2010

English as a global language

A gulf by any other name

In the year in which I’ve been away from the UAE, the fervor for the use of “Arabian Gulf” instead of “Persian Gulf” has certainly heated up here. This map…

Ingrid PillerDecember 20, 2010

News

Annual Language on the Move Award 2011

We are pleased to announce an open call for applications for the ALMA Award 2011! We started the Award with two awardees, Muhammad Ali Khan and Lachlan Jackson, in 2010,…

Kimie Takahashi 高橋君江December 17, 2010

English as a global language

The secret of successful intercultural communication

“What is the secret to successful intercultural communication?” This was one of the questions I was asked after my lecture on “New directions in intercultural communication” at United Arab Emirates…

Ingrid PillerDecember 15, 2010

Language learning

The textbook wall

Have you ever felt a wall of textbooks around you, obstructing your vision and thinking, rather than widening your horizon? That’s how one of my research participants, let’s call him…

Muhammad Ali KhanDecember 13, 2010

News

2010 HDR Excellence Award for Jenny Zhang

Jenny Zhang, a member of the Language on the Move team, received a 2010 Higher Degree Research Excellence Award from the Faculty of Human Sciences at Macquarie University. Congratulations, Jenny!…

Kimie Takahashi 高橋君江December 12, 2010

Reza's well-used Japanese-Persian and English-Persian dictionaries

Multilingual families

A tale of two foreigners in Japan

This is the first in a series of blog posts about my experiences undertaking an ongoing research project. In this series I will be detailing some of the methodological challenges…

Lachlan JacksonDecember 8, 2010

English as a global language

Happy birthday, UAE!

The United Arab Emirates are celebrating their 39th national day this month. Trucial Oman, as it was then known, became independent from their semi-colonial relationship with Britain in December 1971…

Ingrid PillerDecember 5, 2010

News

Language on the Move in the Middle East

In December and January Ingrid will be visiting universities in Iran and the United Arab Emirates and she will be speaking about her research in the sociolinguistics of multilingualism, language…

Lg_on_the_moveNovember 30, 2010

Intercultural communication

Condoms in translation

Condoms in translation It’s been impossible to escape this week’s media coverage of the pope’s comments about condoms and male prostitutes. There has been a lot of debate about what…

Ingrid PillerNovember 28, 2010

Next Gen Literacies

Multiculturalism alive and well in Austria

I love public libraries. Here in Sydney, our family regularly spends time in our local public library and in the Persian library in Parramatta. We treat public libraries a bit…

Ingrid PillerNovember 24, 2010

Multilingual histories

I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night

Joe Hill front cover Today 105 years ago, on November 19, 1905, Joe Hill was executed in Utah. Although his name is rather forgotten today, Joe Hill was arguably one…

Ingrid PillerNovember 19, 2010

Language at work

Language in the catfish war

Language in the catfish war I’ve just read False Economy and in addition to learning many new intriguing things about economic history, I’ve also learnt that the catfish war, was,…

Ingrid PillerNovember 13, 2010

Language learning

The ethics of saving endangered languages

My 88-year-old grandma, my mamanjoon, is the most wonderful nana anyone could have and I am very close to her. She has played a significant role in my development.

Vahid ParvareshNovember 8, 2010

Language learning

German is so funny. Not.

Earlier this term I intercepted a note my 7-year-old had written to her teacher: “Ger Ger Ger; Don’t be so rude.” She was objecting to a reading comprehension exercise about…

Ingrid PillerNovember 6, 2010

Research reflections

In memoriam Michael Clyne

Michael Clyne with Emi Otsuji, the 2009 winner of the Michael Clyne Prize I was saddened this morning to read the Australian Linguistics Society’s news about Michael Clyne’s passing! Australian…

Ingrid PillerOctober 30, 2010

Divine linguistic diversity

A gulf by any other name

Annual Language on the Move Award 2011

The secret of successful intercultural communication

The textbook wall

2010 HDR Excellence Award for Jenny Zhang

A tale of two foreigners in Japan

Happy birthday, UAE!

Language on the Move in the Middle East

Condoms in translation

Language in the catfish war

The ethics of saving endangered languages

German is so funny. Not.

In memoriam Michael Clyne

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