Language at work – Page 4 – Language on the Move

The sociolinguistics of nail care

Have you recently had a manicure or a pedicure? I haven’t. In fact, I’ve never been to a nail salon in my life. Until about a decade ago that would…

Ingrid PillerFebruary 27, 2012

English as a global language

Language shift and phone sex

Ever since I left my native village in the Bavarian Forest more than 25 years ago, I have been returning for regular, even if infrequent, visits. Over the years, there…

Ingrid PillerFebruary 15, 2012

English as a global language

English and ASEAN

English and ASEAN Ever since I arrived in Bangkok in 2011, I’ve being witnessing the amazing spread of English fever. At the national level, Thailand is wholeheartedly invested in the…

Kimie Takahashi 高橋君江February 3, 2012

English as a global language

Mi-Cha Flubacher, Alfonso Del Percio and Alexandre Duchêne (Institute of Multilingualism, University/PH Fribourg), are inviting papers for the thematic session "The legitimate speaker in a transforming political economy" (Session ID…

Mi-Cha Flubacher and Shirley YeungDecember 13, 2011

Language and migration

Patriots and traitors

Much of my work in recent years around language learning and migrant settlement has questioned the straightforward link between language learning and settlement success. Policy makers as well as migrants…

Ingrid PillerJune 6, 2011

Language and tourism

Do you speak Swiss?

A most amazing book has just landed on my desk: Do you speak Swiss, edited by Walter Haas, is the final report on a Swiss National Research Project devoted to…

Ingrid PillerFebruary 14, 2011

News

Working women on the move

Working women on the move The International Gender and Language Association conference at Tsuda College, Tokyo, kicked off yesterday with a panel about Working Women on the Move organized by…

Ingrid PillerSeptember 19, 2010

Language and migration

Racism without racists

In the past couple of years, I have been a passenger in Sydney taxis driven, inter alia, by an agricultural engineer from India, a civil engineer from Somalia, a surgeon…

Ingrid PillerAugust 27, 2010

English as a global language

Language and inflation

Some Language-on-the-Movers based here in Sydney had the opportunity to attend Professor Masaki Oda’s lecture about the current state of the English language in Japan yesterday. With major Japanese companies…

Ingrid PillerAugust 5, 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 at work

English-Only at Bon Secours

English-Only at Bon Secours From what I read, there is a nursing shortage in the Global North. From North America to Japan and from Europe to the Gulf countries, rich…

Ingrid PillerJuly 19, 2010

Language at work

Linguistic discrimination at work

Deborah Cameron noted in 1995 that “linguistic bigotry is among the last publicly expressible prejudices left to members of the Western intelligentsia.” In the same vein, one could point out…

Ingrid PillerJanuary 22, 2010

Language shift and phone sex

English and ASEAN

The legitimate speaker

Patriots and traitors

Working women on the move

Racism without racists

Language and inflation

English at work in Japan

English-Only at Bon Secours

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