Banal cosmopolitanism

Ingrid Piller

Banal cosmopolitanism

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Abstract

Have you recently seen a “welcome” sign? They constitute a strange genre: ever more ubiquitous on the one hand, yet utterly false and insincere – how can you be “greeted” by a piece of stuff? – on the other.

Original language	English
Specialist publication	Language on the move
Publisher	Language on the move
Publication status	Published - 31 Oct 2017

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© 2018 Language on the Move. Version archived for private and non-commercial use with the permission of the author/s and according to publisher conditions. For further rights please contact the publisher.

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200401 applied linguistics and educational linguistics
200405 language in culture and society (sociolinguistics)

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Banal cosmopolitanism

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