Carl Rohling, The Teplitz incidence. Goethe (left) draws his hat and bows to the imperial party while Beethoven (front-center) strides on Over the holidays, I’ve had the opportunity to read…
Ingrid PillerJanuary 2, 2013
So much hot air: the character for "meeting" consists of the one for "cloud" under a roof Before my recent visit to Wuhan and Hong Kong I was planning to…
Ingrid PillerDecember 12, 2012
Constructing language learning as global choice on melale.ir In Iran, as in many other countries, the state has traditionally been a very powerful actor in the field of second language…
Vahid ParvareshDecember 10, 2012
Australian Linguistics Society Talkley Award 2012 At their annual general meeting in Perth yesterday, the Australian Linguistics Society (ALS) awarded this year’s Talkley award to our very own Ingrid Piller.…
Lg_on_the_moveDecember 7, 2012
Multilingual Hong Kong (Katherine Chen and Gray Carper, 2005-2007) During our visit to Hong Kong, Kimie and I met Katherine Chen, who introduced us to a sociolinguistic film she has…
Ingrid PillerDecember 3, 2012
The "Sorry" message of a German live-streaming site inaccessible to US-based viewers You’ve probably never heard of Easy Hide IP, an admittedly obscure software that allows you to surf the…
Christof Demont-HeinrichNovember 30, 2012
Professor Adam Jaworski and intercultural communication students at the University of Hong Kong It is one of the joys of having written a book like Intercultural Communication that readers like…
Ingrid PillerNovember 28, 2012
The recent Intercultural Communication Conference at Zhongnan University of Law and Economics was covered by Wuhan TV's evening news. You can either watch the full show on the WHTV website or the…
Language on the MoveNovember 26, 2012
Members of the Language on the Move team meeting at ZUEL: Li Jia, Zhang Jie, Ingrid Piller, Kimie Takahashi, Guo Jian, Jackie Chang (fltr) Last week members of the Language…
Ingrid PillerNovember 21, 2012
Losing your voice or learning academic writing? (Source: business2community.com) “A latent function of the educational system is to instil linguistic insecurity, to discriminate linguistically, to channel children in ways that…
Grace Chu-Lin ChangNovember 13, 2012
Who of these two men do you expect to speak better English?* I am very much looking forward to attending the International Conference on Research and Applications of Intercultural Communication…
Ingrid PillerNovember 9, 2012
Last weekend the Australian government released its white paper Australia in the Asian Century. One of its recommendations is that "All Australian students will have the opportunity, and be encouraged, to undertake…
Lg_on_the_moveOctober 31, 2012
A broken arm in multicultural Queensland (Source:antilogic.co.za) I recently broke my arm by ignominiously falling in my own living room and landing on my elbow. The force of the impact…
Kerry Taylor-LeechOctober 29, 2012
Bilingual education and language learning is close to the heart of all our readers here on Language on the Move and it's great to see increasing recognition of the importance…
Language on the MoveOctober 25, 2012
Academic criticism (Source: pbworks.com) The final seminar of the 2012 series of Applied Linguistics seminars at Macquarie University will be held on Tuesday, October 30: Academic criticism: the myth of impersonality When:…
Lg_on_the_moveOctober 22, 2012
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