Tag Archives: Australia

Cabramatta Beyond Harmony Day

Posted on March 21, 2012 by Sheila Pham

Cabramatta Last week an email was sent around my office about our upcoming Harmony Day celebration on 21 March. The email suggested that to mark the occasion, interested staff could bring in food from their culture and engage in sporting activities, … Continue reading →

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Vietnamese nail technicians The sociolinguistics of nail care

Posted on February 27, 2012 by Ingrid Piller

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 not have been unusual among my friends and acquaintances. Today, … Continue reading →

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2413351 Intercultural grocery shopping

Posted on February 11, 2012 by Vahid Parvaresh

It is now widely agreed that human beings have moved into a phase of modernity in which they have to tackle the extreme dynamism in modern institutions and provide an explanation for the discontinuities they experience. As a result of … Continue reading →

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Language costs Language costs

Posted on November 25, 2011 by Ingrid Piller

USD 254,000: that is the cost of raising two children bilingually in English and German in Denver, Colorado. That’s a lot of money, and inspired me to do some number-crunching of my own. To begin with, it’s a reminder that … Continue reading →

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090729-02-jellyfish-harvest-break-nets_big_2 The politics of subtitling

Posted on October 19, 2011 by Ingrid Piller

Recently, I watched a TV documentary about the proliferation of Nomura jellyfish in Japanese coastal waters. It was a shocking tale of the devastating environmental, economic, social and human impact of overfishing, global warming and marine pollution. The reason I’m … Continue reading →

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