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luxos_arab traveler Money talks

Posted on January 17, 2012 by Ingrid Piller

Those of us in the broad area of TESOL often labor under the assumption of the invincibility of English hegemony. Whether they deplore it or exult in it, many people assume that English is on a straight march to linguistic … Continue reading →

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buyern انگلیسی، آن نا-زبان

Posted on February 7, 2011 by Ingrid Piller

Persian version of my blog post about English as the non-language of globalization. Translated by Niloufar Behrooz (نیلوفر بهروز) (نوشتار شماره ٢ در مجموعه نوشتار های کوتاه درباره ی نشانه های چند زبانه) اغلب تابلوهایی كه در مكان هایِ عمومیِ حالِ … Continue reading →

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Space challenged Tokyo, Japan: www.languageonthemove.org Tokyo: Elegantly Multilingual

Posted on October 15, 2010 by Kimie Takahashi 高橋君江

Tokyo is getting more and more linguistically diverse every time I go back there. During this trip, I was really amazed by how efficiently and elegantly Tokyo does multilingual signs, particularly on trains and at stations. And I wasn’t the … Continue reading →

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shinjuku station Multilingual Tokyo

Posted on September 28, 2010 by Ingrid Piller

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 stereotype! Tokyo is an amazingly multilingual place! Official signage in … Continue reading →

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Multilingual prohibitions

Posted on May 3, 2010 by Ingrid Piller

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 his longing for his English home for Rupert Brooke. Prohibition … Continue reading →

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