Book Review: Language Management: From Bricolage to Strategy in British Companies

Lovrits, Veronika

doi:10.1177/14705958221138697

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“…This framing may be a result of the importance of the concept of Business English as a Lingua Franca (BELF) (Komori-Glatz, 2018), which emphasises that the English language, as it is used in an international business context, is not owned by native speakers, but by the international business community who use it. Accordingly, native speakers are not typically considered to claim epistemic authority over BELF, despite evidence to the contrary (Wilmot, 2022). The goal of BELF is to enable communication, and if this occurs successfully, then it has been used correctly, regardless of grammatical constructions or accent which may differ from native speaker usage.…”

Section: Language As a Source Of Epistemic Injusticementioning

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“…Therefore, a solution is not to require employees to all learn more languages, but to create a situation of polyphony by developing greater respect for everyone's linguistic resources and facilitating their use. This may involve linguistic perspective-taking, for example (Wilmot, 2022), in which individuals consider the experiences and linguistic backgrounds of their interlocutors, and recognise the challenges and the struggles associated with working in other languages, which would create more virtuous listeners.…”

Section: How To Challenge Injustice Enacted Through Corporate Languag...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Language as a Source of Epistemic Injustice in Organisations

Wilmot

2024

J Bus Ethics

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Although there is now a substantial body of literature exploring the effects of language diversity in international management contexts, little attention has been paid to the ethical dimensions of language diversity at work. This conceptual paper draws on the concept of epistemic injustice in order to explore how language, and in particular corporate language policies, may act as a source of epistemic injustice within the workplace. It demonstrates how language competence affects credibility judgements about a speaker, and also considers how corporate language policies can create situations of hermeneutic injustice, in which marginalised groups are denied the vocabularies to understand their own experiences. Finally, ways in which such epistemic harms can be reduced are discussed, and the possibilities for management education to create epistemically responsible managers are highlighted.

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Section: Language As a Source Of Epistemic Injusticementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: How To Challenge Injustice Enacted Through Corporate Languag...mentioning

confidence: 99%