Ingrid's most recent most blog post, Toiletology, is being featured in the weekly Editor's Selections at researchblogging.org! Read her post and find out what Ingrid has to say about social…
Lg_on_the_moveMay 11, 2010
Ingrid will be giving a seminar as part of the Linguistics Research Seminar Series at Macquarie University on May 10. Her talk will centre on language policy for social inclusion.…
Lg_on_the_moveMay 3, 2010
Installment #3 in the mini-series on multilingual signage The lovers of English poetry among you will recall how the phrase “Betreten verboten” (“No trespassing”) encapsulates his alienation from Berlin and…
Ingrid PillerMay 3, 2010
Installment #2 in the mini-series on multilingual signage Much of the signage that can be found in contemporary public spaces is commercial. It is a form of advertising, and language…
Ingrid PillerApril 29, 2010
Over the next few weeks my introductory sociolinguistics students are doing a group work task in which they explore the linguistic landscape in their suburb and relate the visibility of…
Ingrid PillerApril 27, 2010
Ingrid Piller has just begun her first blog mini-series on linguistic landscapes on Language on the Move. Students in her undergraduate course “Language, Culture and Communication” at Macquarie University are…
Lg_on_the_moveApril 27, 2010
I am deeply saddened by the passing of Erwin Koller, one of my teachers and mentors, in Lisbon this weekend. It’s a special gift when teacher and student become friends…
Ingrid PillerApril 22, 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
Non-English speakers’ access to emergency services in Australia is in the news again as a Melbourne man has been convicted of the murder of his wife. What makes the case…
Ingrid PillerApril 12, 2010
Applications for the 2010 ALMA Award – the first of its kind - came from around the globe and were more numerous than we ever expected. So, the choice has…
Lg_on_the_moveApril 12, 2010
I missed the UN’s French language day! It’s not the fact that I missed it that bothers me – I’m late for pretty much everything – it’s the fact that…
Ingrid PillerApril 4, 2010
About ten years ago an overseas student from South Korea who was about to fail a unit I was teaching left a suicide note under my office door. She described…
Ingrid PillerMarch 16, 2010
“Child pornography and English language learning”?! Could there be a connection?! Difficult to believe but true - I’m referring to a best selling English phrase book for Japanese high school…
Kimie Takahashi 高橋君江March 8, 2010
I have served as book review editor for Discourse and Society for ten years and recently resigned from my roles as book review editor for Discourse Studies and Discourse and…
Ingrid PillerMarch 1, 2010
Listen to Ingrid Piller speaking about multilingualism and monolingualism in the tourism industry on ABC radio’s PM show.
Language on the MoveFebruary 27, 2010
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