Japanese on the Move, our video exhibition of the life stories of transnationals, is now complete. We celebrated the completion of this journey last Friday at the Japan Foundation Sydney.…
Anthony Browne, My DadThe next seminar of the 2012 series of Applied Linguistics seminars at Macquarie University will be held on Monday, May 21: Semiotic plays on facial expressions When: Mon 20/05,…
I’m chatting in English to a medical student from Germany who is visiting Sydney, Australia, and we’ve already talked about how I lived in Germany for a while and speak…
Thank you, Ingrid, for drawing my attention to this interesting online forum, Language on the Move, and videos, Japanese on the Move. Based on empirical research on transnational Asian women in London,…
ABC Radio in Sydney Ingrid Piller and Kimie Takahashi are talking about the making of Japanese on the Move on ABC Radio National Lingua Franca. Tune in at 3:45pm on Saturday,…
I’ve written before that I’ve never had an experience in which someone responded negatively to me when I speak German to my daughters in public here in the United States.…
Dr. Zhang, Prof. Piller, Dr. Butorac, Dr. Takahashi Language on the Move proudly presents two new PhDs! Dr. Donna Butorac and Dr. Jenny Zhang graduated last week. Donna's PhD was…
Memorial to Yiman leader Bilba at Wallumbilla (Source: Goodbye Bussamarai) On October 27, 1857, a group of Aboriginal Australians, members of a group known as Yiman carried out a massacre:…
Many things have changed in Australia since I first came here in the mid-1990s. One of these is a noticeable increase in displays of national ardour: for instance, there is…
For the past six months we have featured video interviews with 50 transnationals calling Japan and Australia home here on Language-on-the-Move. We wanted to know what it was like to…
Inside Story has a must-read article about language testing for citizenship in Australia today Citizenship for beginners The Howard government made it harder for some nationalities to become citizens, and…
"Velcro on one pocket coming away at the edge. Please repair and bring back tomorrow for checking." This was the note I had dreaded from my son’s teacher. The Velcro…
Erosion caused by rabbits in a gully in South Australia I’ve spent this morning decorating Easter eggs and making origami Easter bunnies with my child. Tomorrow I’m going to host an Easter egg hunt and in…
The next seminar of the 2012 series of Applied Linguistics seminars at Macquarie University will be held on Thursday, April 19: New directions in the sociolinguistics of globalization Roundtable with graduating PhD…
THIRD UK LINGUISTIC ETHNOGRAPHY FORUM E-SEMINAR Ingrid Piller. Intercultural Communication: A Critical Introduction. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Chapter 10: Intercultural Communication in a Multilingual World When: 30th April – 18th…
Persian translation of English or Persian? مترجم: بهنام کیماسی معنای ماشین نوشته یِ انگلیسیِ رویِ این اتومبیل چیست؟ این یکی از سوال هایی بود که من در دومین کارگاه آموزشی…