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Intercultural communication

Japanese on the Move

Thank you all for waiting - we are thrilled to present you with the new-look Language on the Move 3.0! This is the second time we have renewed our site…

Kimie Takahashi 高橋君江April 6, 2011

Language learning

Where is home?

Many of the people close to my heart are transnationals such as myself. Belonging is a frequently discussed topic in my circles, and often a topic that is surrounded by…

Ingrid PillerFebruary 26, 2011

Linguistic landscapes

Japanese in Bangkok

Billboard advertising the Japanese food fair at Isetan I’ve never felt more welcome in a foreign city than where I am at the moment – Bangkok! It has to do…

Kimie Takahashi 高橋君江February 9, 2011

Shop signs of hostess bars on Thaniya Road, Sala Daeng, Bangkok

Language and tourism

The dark side of intercultural communication

At 11pm at a Japanese ramen restaurant in Thaniya, Bangkok, a group of five middle-aged Japanese men and five young Thai women were dining right next to my table. It's…

Kimie Takahashi 高橋君江January 18, 2011

Linguistic landscapes

During my recent lecture about “Teaching language, teaching culture” at the Fujairah Women’s College, I spoke about English language teaching materials in Japan and the ways in which they constructed…

Ingrid PillerJanuary 15, 2011

Language and globalization

Who’s inward-looking?

Yoshiko Nakano's essay in Yomiuri Newspaper “Young people in Japan no longer want to go abroad.” This news reached me in Australia last year and formed part of the background…

Kimie Takahashi 高橋君江January 11, 2011

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

Multilingual histories

Providing bilingual education since 1689

Commemorative stamp, German Federal Post, 1989: 300 years French School Berlin I’ve been teaching about bilingualism for more than a decade and when I speak about bilingual education and dual-immersion…

Ingrid PillerOctober 26, 2010

Linguistic landscapes

Tokyo: Elegantly Multilingual

Space challenged Shinjuku, Tokyo (September 2010): Photo by Kimie Takahashi Tokyo is getting more and more linguistically diverse every time I go back there. During this trip, I was really…

Kimie Takahashi 高橋君江October 15, 2010

Linguistic landscapes

Multilingual Tokyo

I had been led to believe that Japan was a very monolingual place interspersed with Engrish ads, commercial signage and T-shirts. Well, that has turned out to be just another…

Ingrid PillerSeptember 28, 2010

News

More on the Language-on-the-Move Japan tour

During her September visit to Japan, Ingrid is scheduled to give another special lecture at Tsuda College on September 21. Her talk is part of the COOLL Project, funded by the…

Kimie Takahashi 高橋君江September 3, 2010

Language at work

English at work in Japan

In Japan, “English as official language policy” (英語公用語化) is currently trending on social networking sites. Two large Japanese corporations, Rakuten and Uniqlo, recently announced the adoption of English as their…

Kimie Takahashi 高橋君江July 22, 2010

Language and globalization

Academic capitalism and the spread of English

In 2009, I contributed a chapter about the social inclusion of migrants in Australia to an edited book about immigration policy published in Japanese in Japan. The book is doing…

Ingrid PillerJuly 11, 2010

Intercultural communication

Men, English, and international romance

“Japanese guys aren’t the most popular creatures on earth when it comes to romance. Sad but true.” That’s the claim of Meiko Mochizuki Swartz, self-professed bilingual, bicultural ‘expert’ and author…

Lachlan JacksonJuly 7, 2010

Linguistic landscapes

Multilingual prohibitions

Installment #3 in the mini-series on multilingual signage The lovers of English poetry among you will recall how the phrase “Betreten verboten” (“No trespassing”) encapsulates his alienation from Berlin and…

Ingrid PillerMay 3, 2010

Research reflections

In Memoriam Erwin Koller

I am deeply saddened by the passing of Erwin Koller, one of my teachers and mentors, in Lisbon this weekend. It’s a special gift when teacher and student become friends…

Ingrid PillerApril 22, 2010

Japanese on the Move

Japanese in Bangkok

The dark side of intercultural communication

Japan in Arabia

Who’s inward-looking?

A tale of two foreigners in Japan

Providing bilingual education since 1689

Tokyo: Elegantly Multilingual

Multilingual Tokyo

More on the Language-on-the-Move Japan tour

English at work in Japan

Men, English, and international romance

Multilingual prohibitions

In Memoriam Erwin Koller

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