Intercultural Communication – Page 8

English as a global language

Disenchanted in Bangkok

Burmese newspaper in a Bangkok restaurant “When Thai people ask me where I’m from, I tell them, “Oh I’m from the Philippines or Singapore. Then, I don’t get that look!”…

Kimie Takahashi 高橋君江October 23, 2013

English as a global language

English and development aid work

An East Timorese girl speaking Bunak, Tetum, Fataluku and Portuguese (Source: Wikipedia) A response to Alexandra Grey, "We do aid, not English" In my experience English is often promoted by…

Kerry Taylor-LeechOctober 18, 2013

English as a global language

“We do aid, not English!”

Should ‘helping with English’ be part of the brief of humanitarian aid workers? (Source: helpage.org) Over a few years of involvement in the aid sector in Asia, I became aware…

Alexandra GreyOctober 17, 2013

MARIKO WATANABE AND INGRID PILLER CELEBRATE THEIR REUNION AT YACCOMARICARD IN CHIT LOM

Intercultural communication

Communicating passion for fashion

Mariko Watanabe and Ingrid Piller celebrate their reunion at Yaccomaricard in Chit Lom This post is also available in pdf-format. Click here. In early July, YM Fashion’s CEO Mariko Watanabe…

Kimie Takahashi 高橋君江October 11, 2013

Linguistic Diversity and Tourism in Amazing Thailand

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Open Forum on Linguistic Diversity and Tourism

Linguistic Diversity and Tourism FORUM DETAILS Date: July 02, 2013 | Time: 16:00 – 19:30 Venue: The Hall of Fame, Assumption University, Hua Mak, Bangkok RSVP: Open to public. Please…

Lg_on_the_moveJune 11, 2013

Intercultural communication

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

Multilingual histories

Internationalization of Higher Education, 1933

Ernst Reuter, West Berlin's post-war Mayor, was Professor of Urban Studies in Ankara from 1938 to 1946 (Source: turkishpress.de) While the internationalization of higher education is a hot topic at…

Ingrid PillerMay 14, 2013

English as a global language

Internationalization and Englishization in Higher Education

University rankings drive the Englishization of global academia The Intercultural Communication Special Interest Group of the British Association of Applied Linguistics is hosting a seminar at Newcastle University next week…

Ingrid PillerMay 9, 2013

Language at work

Language and the stratification of restaurant labour

Different languages for different jobs in this Los Angeles restaurant Are there language requirements for working in restaurants in Los Angeles? These two employment signs that I saw in the…

Calvin N. HoMarch 25, 2013

Language at work

Grassroots multilingualism

Africa Town, Guangzhou (Source: ChinaSmack) What does an urban middle-class male university graduate from Conakry, the capital of Guinea, have in common with a peasant woman with little education from…

Ingrid PillerFebruary 19, 2013

Multilingual families

The Birthday Party: A Montessori Mother in Japan

Montessori preschoolers in Tokyo preparing a feast Anyone who has young children attending pre-school or participating in other similar programs will be acquainted with birthday rituals in group settings such…

Angela Turzynski-AzimiFebruary 12, 2013

Intercultural communication Language learning

Where are you from?

The Adelaide delegation at this year's Esperanto conference. Indrani is in the front right. When we meet new people we often ask straight away: where are you from? For many…

Nicole ElseFebruary 6, 2013

Multilingual histories

Բազմամշակույթ Իսֆահանի Ոսկէ Շրջանը

Inside Vank Cathedral, the Armenian Cathedral of the Holy Savior in Isfahan. Construction began in 1606 and was completed in the 1660s (Source: Wikipedia) Armenian version of "A golden age…

Ingrid PillerFebruary 3, 2013

Language in Australia

Multiculturalism without multilingualism

Multiculturalism in Australia: Should it be seen but not heard? (Source: det.wa.edu.au) Australia has embraced multiculturalism as official national policy since the 1970s. Interestingly, the most recent incarnation of the…

Shiva Motaghi TabariJanuary 29, 2013

Intercultural communication

The exotic Chinese language

Chinese: What does the Chinese language mean to Western tourists visiting China? Ingrid’s blog post “Character challenge” has set me thinking about Chinese language learning these days. I have found…