Multilingualism in companies: an introduction

Sherman, Tamah; Strubell, Miquel

doi:10.1080/01434632.2013.807269

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“…Recent sociolinguistic studies label workplace communication ‘transnational’ (see Duchêne et al, 2013; Hazel, 2015; Kingsley, 2013; Räisänen, 2018; Sherman & Strubell, 2013; Wodak et al., 2012; Yanaprasart, 2016), or related terms such as ‘cosmopolitan’ (Mondada, 2012) and ‘superdiverse’ (Blackledge & Creese, 2017). These work settings are ‘transnational’ in that they involve people, resources, and interactions that transcend nation‐state borders and space/time boundaries.…”

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Transnational work, translingual practices, and interactional sociolinguistics

Canagarajah

2020

Journal of Sociolinguistics

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This introductory article explains the need for interactional analyses of workplace communication, which is increasingly multilingual and multimodal in expansive spatiotemporal contexts and layered frames. It provides an overview of how neoliberal economic conditions have impacted workplace communication, generating new task structures and communicative practices. Arguing that there is a need to situate localized workplace interactions in changing frames and task structures, the article demonstrates how interactional sociolinguistics might serve this purpose. It goes on to review theoretical developments on the materiality of language to revisit traditional concerns about social structure and communicative interactions, develop a more expansive orientation to repertoires, and demonstrate how interactional analysis might adopt suitable units and categories of analysis. It then describes how this framework explains the different outcomes for language diversity in the contributing articles—ranging from inequality to solidarity, marginalization to inclusivity, and misunderstandings to intelligibility—in workplace interactions.

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Section: Definitionsmentioning

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Transnational work, translingual practices, and interactional sociolinguistics

Canagarajah

2020

Journal of Sociolinguistics

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“…As mentioned above, the world of employment is interconnected and globalised and many professional environments where citizens need to navigate are already multicultural and multilingual (Sherman & Strubell, 2013). Unsurprisingly, there are few professional working contexts which have remained monocultural.…”

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confidence: 99%

Challenges of monolingual intercultural communication in the context of the Languages Connect Strategy

Murray

Giralt

2019

TEANGA

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The new national language strategy (Languages Connect) for Ireland has finally highlighted the importance of language learning for the economic, social and cultural development of the country. Inherent to this strategy is the demand for not only multilingual graduates but interculturally competent graduates. Ireland has been becoming increasingly culturally diverse for many years now, and so our contexts of work and interactions have become multilingual as well as multicultural. Yet many of our students remain limited in their acquisition and exposure to foreign language/s and culture/s. Previously we reported (Authors, 2018) how our pedagogical content and practices are insufficient in addressing the current linguistic and intercultural competence (IC) needs of language specialist graduates. Our new data (n=141) has emerged using a mixed-methods approach from non-specialist language students, who have had limited language or IC training. Our analysis reveals problems arising from these monolingual intercultural communications due to English being the dominant lingua franca. We have major challenges in motivating these monolingual students to learn another language. The dangers arising from this monolingualism are self-evident, (see, for example: https://www.llas.ac.uk/700reasons.html), the solutions less so. This article explores this perplexing scenario and aims to open a dialogue on this subject, offering some recommendations and potential solutions.

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“…There is an organizational speech community with a top-down perspective which looks at language ideologies from the point of language prioritization and policies about language use in institutions and companies; equally and simultaneously, individual ideologies are also at work (Sherman & Strubell, 2013). People actively experience power relations, and weave webs of perceptions and beliefs around their experiences (Blommaert, 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%