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IMG_2560 Happy Birthday, UAE!

Posted on December 5, 2011 by Ingrid Piller

The United Arab Emirates are celebrating another National Day! And they are doing it in style! I was lucky to enter the country exactly on its 40th birthday and so thought I should share the celebrations with Language-on-the-Move readers here … Continue reading →

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Ingrid Piller at IGALA 2010 Language-on-the-Move in Japan now on video

Posted on February 25, 2011 by Kimie Takahashi 高橋君江

English 日本語 EnglishIngrid Piller’s keynote lecture at the International Gender and Language Association conference in September 2010 is now available on video and so is another guest lecture she conducted during our Language on the Move tour to Japan. To … 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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chaney_martin_p. 57 The secret of successful intercultural communication

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Ingrid Piller

“What is the secret to successful intercultural communication?” This was one of the questions I was asked after my lecture on “New directions in intercultural communication” at United Arab Emirates University in Al Ain. In my lecture I had been … Continue reading →

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Finding Switzerland in Japan Finding Switzerland in Japan

Posted on October 6, 2010 by Ingrid Piller

As a non-speaker and non-reader of Japanese I went to Japan fully expecting to be confused. However, the only confusing moment I experienced had nothing to do with anything Japanese: when I stepped off the train at Hakone Station, I … Continue reading →

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