Editor’s note: The COVID-19 pandemic has seen a major shift in global linguistic and cultural flows. In this latest contribution to our series of language aspects of the COVID-19 crisis, Jeffrey…
Jeffrey GilJuly 10, 2020
Wei Duan introduces herself to a group of Bangladeshi students at Yunnan University As a postgraduate student at Yunnan University in Southwest China, I have been conducting a longitudinal ethnography…
Wei DuanMay 23, 2020
Before celebrating China’s Spring Festival, my husband and I were talking about new sources of local economic growth thanks to President Xi Jinping’s visit to Tengchong right after his first…
Li JiaMarch 4, 2020
Students of Beijing Normal University who were part of the May Fourth Movement (Image credit: Wikipedia) This month marks the 100th anniversary of China’s May 4 Movement. This intellectual and…
Jeffrey GilMay 29, 2019
“Fremdschämen” is a German word that means being embarrassed on behalf of someone else. In Australia, this feeling is frequently induced by the behavior of our politicians. Yesterday, public embarrassment…
Ingrid PillerApril 14, 2019
Poland in China (Artwork by the author) Intercultural communication at work in multinational companies (MNCs) is increasingly common. Workplace communication in MNCs can be highly complex, as is the case…
Michał WilczewskiFebruary 16, 2019
A restaurant sign featuring both Tibetan and Chinese, in a village where the Tibetan residents speak Ngandehua, one of Tibet's minority languages (Image: Gerald Roche) As elsewhere in High Asia,…
Gerald RocheNovember 19, 2018
Passport photos of early Chinese immigrants (Source: Invisible Australians) For most Chinese migrants, China is what they call home. China is the basis on which they establish a sense…
Yining WangSeptember 24, 2018
The website of Hohhot Baita International Airport provides information in Chinese and English but not in Mongolian Update, Sept 16, 2020: A Mongolian translation of this blog post is now…
Gegentuul BaioudApril 18, 2018
King Sejong the Great (1397-1450) (Image source: Wikipedia) Today, South Koreans celebrate Hangul Day. Hangul Day is a national holiday to celebrate the Korean script. I am not aware of…
Ingrid PillerOctober 9, 2017
At the recent 16th International Conference on Minority Languages at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, I delivered a keynote lecture about “language shaming”. By “language shaming”, I mean (social) media…
Ingrid PillerSeptember 28, 2017
Dr Li Jia (4th from right) with her supervisor, Professor Ingrid Piller, and members of the Language-on-the-Move team The Language on the Move team is proud to celebrate another PhD…
Lg_on_the_moveSeptember 22, 2017
Image of dictionary burning circulating on social media On New Year’s Eve, when many people around the world were excited about firework shows, a group of Mongols in remote Inner…
Gegentuul BaioudApril 10, 2017
"Learn Chinese, Double Your World": Promotion of Chinese as a global language Research seminar about the language learning experiences of Burmese high school students in China Topic: Following the China…
Lg_on_the_moveFebruary 10, 2017
Rashid al-Din Monument in Soltaniyeh, Iran (Source: Wikipedia) Recently, I signed a contract for a revised second edition of my 2011 book Intercultural Communication: A Critical Introduction to be published…
Ingrid PillerNovember 25, 2015
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