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Language at work

How (not) to address airline passengers

Terms of address in intercultural communication can be a tricky business as Kimiesan pointed out recently. One would think that airlines with their international customer base and tons of market…
Language and law

LLIRN 6th Anniversary Workshop

In-person LLIRN attendees (Image credit: Kristen Martin) The Law and Linguistics Interdisciplinary Research Network (LLIRN) facilitates interdisciplinary scholars, language professionals and legal professionals around the world to connect and share…
Linguistic landscapes

Multilingual Tokyo

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…
English as a global language
The legitimate speaker
Language and globalization
More on banal cosmopolitanism
Language in education
Child language brokering
English as a global language
Baking a cookie in Iran
Japanese on the Move in Twitter
Language learning
Japanese on the Move in Tweets
Intercultural communication
Japanese on the Move