Tag Archives: Language & tourism

Isfahan University English in Iran

Posted on December 30, 2010 by Ingrid Piller

Even a casual observer of the linguistic landscape in Iran will have to conclude that Iranians have a collective fetish for English. Almost all public signage is bilingual in English and Persian, even in cases where it is hard to … Continue reading →

Posted in Language & tourism | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 8 Comments

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 →

Posted in Language & tourism, Recent Posts | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | 8 Comments

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 →

Posted in Language & globalization | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 13 Comments

game-of-love-chinese-style-247x300 旅游中的东方主义

Posted on September 2, 2010 by Chen Xiaoxiao 陈潇潇

Chinese version of my recent blog post about orientalism and tourism 东方主义，这种西方文化中对东方文化及人文的旧式及带有偏见的理解，可谓是由来已久、根深蒂固。一日偶读澳大利亚旅游杂志《出发和到达》中一篇题为“爱情游戏，中国风”的文章，我对东方主义在当今世界的影响力，尤其是在旅游文本中的呈现，感触尤为深刻。 乍看标题“爱情游戏，中国风”，觉得有趣而有些费解：什么样的“爱情游戏”可以称为“中国风”呢？接下来的副标题解释道：“远离现代社会的纷扰，中国纳西族在罕见的母系社会中独享亘古不变的清静”。文中描绘的中国西南边陲的云南白沙古镇是纳西族的故乡之一。而作者描绘的方式却使得白沙镇成为代表整个中国的一个影像：亘古不变，陷入一个远离现代文明的永恒世界。

Posted in Language & tourism, Recent Posts, 中文 | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

game of love chinese style Orientalism and tourism

Posted on July 31, 2010 by Chen Xiaoxiao 陈潇潇

Nowhere is the persistence of Orientalist ways of viewing the non-Western Other so obvious than in tourism brochures, as I was reminded when reading an article titled “Game of Love, Chinese Style” in the most recent issue of the Australian … Continue reading →

Posted in Language & tourism | Tagged , , , , , | 10 Comments