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Intercultural communication

‘I’m not listening to you!’ Interacting in a linguistically diverse society

Manus Island Detention Centre, where Faysal Ishak Ahmed collapsed (Source: ABC News) On December 23, 2016, as most Australians were winding down for the holiday week ahead, Faysal Ishak Ahmed,…

Ingrid PillerMarch 15, 2017

News

Language on the Move 2016

Language on the Move is taking a break. Before we go, we’d like to wish all our readers peaceful holidays and a happy, healthy and prosperous 2017! We will be…

Lg_on_the_moveDecember 21, 2016

Intercultural communication

Building bridges in a divided world

"Good people make a good country" by Addo Tetteh As I am trying to finalize the manuscript for the second revised edition of my 2011 book Intercultural Communication: A Critical…

Ingrid PillerNovember 10, 2016

Language and migration

Stereotyped ethnic names as a barrier to workplace entry

Who of the three women in this image do you think German employers are most likely to consider as a potential employee and call for a job interview? Obviously, the…

Ingrid PillerNovember 4, 2016

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

News

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Language on the Move is turning seven! Happy anniversary and to the next seven years! Language on the Move first went live today seven years ago, on October 04, 2009. We…

Lg_on_the_moveOctober 4, 2016

Language and globalization

Urban sociolinguistics in Dubai

A couple of years ago, I mused here on Language on the Move what linguistic theory would look like if its dominant cultural ideas had not been shaped in 1950s…

Ingrid PillerSeptember 29, 2016

How language can entrench disadvantage

The New Books Network has just published an interview with Ingrid Piller about her new book Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice. The host of the show, Chris Cummins, sums up the…

Lg_on_the_moveAugust 4, 2016

News

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Publishing house De Gruyter Mouton is celebrating their stellar performance in the 2015 Impact Factor ratings by giving you the opportunity to explore De Gruyter’s top 10 social sciences impact…

Lg_on_the_moveJuly 22, 2016

Language and law

Crucial communication: language management in Australian asylum interviews

Asylum seekers in Australia face a few very public hurdles. Successive governments have used increasingly restrictive refugee policies to gain votes. Meanwhile, the media often focuses on the issue of…

Laura Smith-KhanMarch 15, 2016

Multilingual histories

Herder: an explainer for linguists

Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) Some contemporary sociolinguists love to hate an 18th century educator, philosopher, theologian, translator and general polymath by the name of Herder. Hardly a week goes by…

Ingrid PillerMarch 4, 2016

Intercultural communication

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

Language and law

Guidelines for communicating rights to non-native speakers of English

"You have the right to remain silent" (Source: Tumblr) “You have the right to remain silent” is an expression familiar to many English speakers. But what is involved in understanding…

Diana EadesDecember 2, 2015

Multilingual histories

Cultural brokering

Rashid al-Din Monument in Soltaniyeh, Iran (Source: Wikipedia) Recently, I signed a contract for a revised second edition of my 2011 book Intercultural Communication: A Critical Introduction to be published…

Ingrid PillerNovember 25, 2015

Language and globalization

‘Detours’ taken by Mongols on WeChat

A monument near Baganuur (Outer Mongolia) with an inscription of poem "My Native Land" by Natsagdorj (Source: Wikipedia) In the middle school Mongolian textbooks there is a well-known text called…