(Image credit: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino) August is celebrated in the Philippines as Buwan ng Wika (language month). This celebration began in 1946, shortly after the then Philippine President Manuel…
Loy LisingAugust 5, 2021
Akhlaq Ahmad at work on the mural in Shahdara for the ‘Delhi, I Love You’ project. (Image Credit: Delhi, I Love You) On July 8, 2020, The Wire published an…
Rizwan AhmadJuly 24, 2020
Annastacia Palaszczuk and members of her family (Source: Couriermail) Would Kirk Douglas be a Hollywood legend if he had kept his birth name Issur Danielovitch? Would Bob Dylan have achieved…
Ingrid PillerFebruary 4, 2015
One’s name is one of the most salient features for one’s identity. Some parents suffer from extraordinary indecisiveness when giving their newborn a wonderfully auspicious and proper name, all with…
Grace Chu-Lin ChangMay 2, 2011
In the year in which I’ve been away from the UAE, the fervor for the use of “Arabian Gulf” instead of “Persian Gulf” has certainly heated up here. This map…
Ingrid PillerDecember 20, 2010
In his recent post “Accent and History,” Khan asked whether it’s possible to escape the prison of our accent and our language. Looking at the civil war and humanitarian disaster…
Ingrid PillerJune 15, 2010
I am one of Ingrid and Kimie’s PhD students. My research deals with second language learning and African resettlement in Australia. For my first guest blog, I would like to…
Vera Williams TettehApril 16, 2010
Some people just can’t win it seems. Second language speakers are in that category. I can’t even begin to count how many people who have read a fraction of the…
Ingrid PillerNovember 19, 2009
Ingrid and I have done sociolinguistic research in a few different contexts, including study abroad, migration and tourism. I also find my own marriage as a fascinating space where I…
Kimie Takahashi 高橋君江October 22, 2009
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