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English as a global language

Global toys in a local world

Recently, I had occasion to visit a toy store in Isfahan to buy a present for my seven-year-old cousin, who had invited me to his birthday party. Grand, impressive and…

Vahid ParvareshMay 25, 2012

Linguistic landscapes

English or Persian?

“What is the meaning of the choice of English in the slogan on this car?” That was one of the questions I asked the participants in the 2nd Language-on-the-Move Workshop…

Ingrid PillerDecember 13, 2011

News

Returning to Isfahan

According to a Persian saying Isfahan is nesf-e jahan (‘Half the World’). As some of our regular readers might recall, I visited ‘Half the World’ as part of the Language-on-the-Move…

Ingrid PillerNovember 23, 2011

Language learning

Reading ‘Culture Shock’ in Isfahan

In the past three decades attention has shifted from communicative competence to discourse as a frame for understanding the challenges faced by language learners. Yet, the question of how stereotyping…

Vahid ParvareshOctober 12, 2011

Intercultural communication

I don’t know how to ride a donkey!

One of the most bizarre experiences I had during my stay in Australia was being asked by a European housemate whether it was difficult to ride a donkey. Huh?! How…

Vahid ParvareshAugust 9, 2011

English as a global language

Language consumption and mobility

In the past thirty years, Iran’s population has exploded from about 40 million to more than 72 million. Such rapid growth has resulted in the vast majority of the population…

Vahid ParvareshJuly 4, 2011

English as a global language

British Royal Wedding in Iran

Recently, the British royal wedding made international front-page news. It was globally portrayed as an auspicious occasion for the world to remember; much like a well-written fairy-tale. The outcome was record-breaking:…

Vahid ParvareshMay 12, 2011

Intercultural communication

تمسخر لهجه ها

Amoo ('Uncle') Poorang Persian version of my recent post about "Ridiculing accents" Translated by Behnam Keimasi (بهنام کیماسی) آیا مایه گذاشتن از اقلیت‌های زبانی برای سرگرم کردن کودکان کار درستی…

Manouchehr KouhestaniApril 25, 2011

Ridiculing accents

Amoo ('Uncle') Poorang Is it ok to entertain children at the expense of linguistic minorities? That was the question I asked myself a couple of months ago when I was…

Manouchehr KouhestaniMarch 28, 2011

English as a global language

More on English in Iran

In 2006 and 2007 I was doing my MA at the University of Tehran, about 450 kilometers away from my hometown, Isfahan. For this reason, I was a regular passenger…

Vahid ParvareshMarch 25, 2011

Game Over!

Like many I’ve had my eyes on the protests in Egypt and elsewhere in the Arab world over the past couple of days. The way angry young men and women…

Ingrid PillerJanuary 31, 2011

English as a global language

Baking a cookie in Iran

The Iranian-American comedian Maz Jobrani has a routine about the stereotypical views of Iranians as fanatics often presented in the Western media: Every time they show us on TV they…

Ingrid PillerJanuary 6, 2011

Language and tourism

Persepolis

I visited Persepolis today. Persepolis proved to be a great way to end the year and to reflect on the passage of time. More unexpectedly, Persepolis also proved to be…

Ingrid PillerJanuary 1, 2011

Language and tourism

English in Iran

Even a casual observer of the linguistic landscape in Iran will have to conclude that Iranians have a collective fetish for English. Almost all public signage is bilingual in English…

Ingrid PillerDecember 30, 2010

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

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

Global toys in a local world

English or Persian?

Returning to Isfahan

Reading ‘Culture Shock’ in Isfahan

I don’t know how to ride a donkey!

Language consumption and mobility

British Royal Wedding in Iran

تمسخر لهجه ها

More on English in Iran

Baking a cookie in Iran

Persepolis

English in Iran

Divine linguistic diversity

A tale of two foreigners in Japan

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