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Intercultural communication

International education in RCEP, the world’s largest free trade zone

Diversity of international students is celebrated through images that map students onto nations represented by their flags International education is often touted as a golden road to fluency in another…

Li JiaMarch 16, 2021

Language and globalization

From oil spill to Brexit

The oil slick as seen from space (Source: Wikipedia) The British decision to exit the European Union (EU) in 2016 came as a surprise to many. In the lead up…

Rahel CramerMarch 14, 2018

Language and globalization

Banal cosmopolitanism

Multilingual "Welcome" sign in a shopping mall in Munich, Germany Have you recently seen a “welcome” sign? They constitute a strange genre: ever more ubiquitous on the one hand, yet…

Ingrid PillerOctober 31, 2017

Intercultural communication

The banal nationalism of intercultural communication advice

Intercultural communication advice is a strange genre. Filling shelves and shelves in bookshops and libraries and now with a well-established presence on the Internet and in training workshops, it portrays…

Ingrid PillerMay 12, 2017

Multilingual histories

What makes foreigners weird? A quick guide to orientalism

Heinrich Zille, "Die Original Australier" auf dem Rummel, ca. 1900 One of the central arguments of my book Intercultural Communication is that, even today, much intercultural communication is approached from…

Ingrid PillerOctober 27, 2016

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

Promoting the University of Bolton's Ras Al-Khaimah branch campus on the streets of Ajman

English as a global language

Banal nationalism and the internationalization of higher education

Promoting the University of Bolton's Ras Al-Khaimah branch campus on the streets of Ajman The other day I was stuck in traffic in Ajman, one of the smaller of the…

Ingrid PillerMay 22, 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

English as a global language

Eurovision

Eurovision Baku 2012 (Source: i3.mirror.co.uk) This year’s Eurovision Song Contest has come and gone with Sweden crowned the winner for 2012, also taking the title of Australia’s unofficial winner (over…

Kerry Taylor-LeechJune 1, 2012

English as a global language

Globalisation and nationalism

Many things have changed in Australia since I first came here in the mid-1990s. One of these is a noticeable increase in displays of national ardour: for instance, there is…

Ingrid PillerApril 20, 2012

Linguistic landscapes

Happy Birthday, UAE!

The United Arab Emirates are celebrating another National Day! And they are doing it in style! I was lucky to enter the country exactly on its 40th birthday and so…

Ingrid PillerDecember 5, 2011

News

Language-on-the-Move in Japan now on video

Ingrid Piller's keynote lecture at the International Gender and Language Association conference in September 2010 is now available on video and so is another guest lecture she conducted during our…

Kimie Takahashi 高橋君江February 25, 2011

English as a global language

انگلیسی، آن نا-زبان

Persian version of my blog post about English as the non-language of globalization. Translated by Niloufar Behrooz (نیلوفر بهروز) (نوشتار شماره ٢ در مجموعه نوشتار های کوتاه درباره ی…

Ingrid PillerFebruary 7, 2011

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 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 in Australia

Diversity made invisible in 2010 Australian federal election

This weekend, if you were out shopping, you couldn't escape the electioneering for the 2010 Australian federal election. I do my grocery shopping in Eastwood, one of Sydney’s most multicultural…

Kimie Takahashi 高橋君江July 26, 2010

International education in RCEP, the world’s largest free trade zone

From oil spill to Brexit

Banal cosmopolitanism

The banal nationalism of intercultural communication advice

What makes foreigners weird? A quick guide to orientalism

Polish cemetery in Tehran

Banal nationalism and the internationalization of higher education

Conversations in Hong Kong

Eurovision

Globalisation and nationalism

Happy Birthday, UAE!

انگلیسی، آن نا-زبان

The secret of successful intercultural communication

Finding Switzerland in Japan

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