What makes foreigners weird? A quick guide to orientalism

Ingrid Piller

What makes foreigners weird? A quick guide to orientalism

Ingrid Piller

Department of Linguistics

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Abstract

One of the central arguments of my book Intercultural Communication is that, even today, much intercultural communication is approached from an orientalist perspective, i.e. a Eurocentric and colonial way of seeing people from other countries as stereotypes. Orientalism finds expression in a myriad of discourses and one way in which it is reproduced is through presenting “foreigners” as weird spectacles.

Original language	English
Specialist publication	Language on the move
Publisher	Language on the move
Publication status	Published - 27 Oct 2016

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Keywords

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

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Piller, I. (2016). What makes foreigners weird? A quick guide to orientalism. Language on the move.

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