Catalan – Language on the Move

Language learning

How can we change language habits?

Language choice in bilingual couples as habit (excerpt from Piller, 2002, p. 137) In my research with bilingual couples, habit emerged as one of the main reasons for a couple’s…

Ingrid PillerAugust 1, 2018

Language and globalization

Virtually multilingual

English is the mother tongue of the Internet, or so it seems. English is omnipresent in the architecture of this breakthrough technology. You see it in the QWERTY keyboard, domain…

Pia TenederoJune 7, 2018

English as a global language

Language work in the internet café

A locutorio shop front in Barcelona (Source: El Periodico) There is now a well-established body of work exploring the language work provided by service workers in call centres and tourist…

Ingrid PillerSeptember 22, 2014

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

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

How can we change language habits?

Language strategy in the hospitality sector

Pallarès, Catalan, the Pyrenees and tourism in global times

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