The present article aims to explore the instability and the dynamic nature, which characterizes the linguistic repertoires of highly-qualified transmigrants. The central questions under scrutiny are: What are the roles and functions of the languages involved in the communication in international workplace settings? How are the roles and functions being distributed among these languages? And how are they being rearranged over time? In order to contribute to the answer of these questions we will examine the role different languages play in the process of international career construction of Russian-speaking professionals during their stay in Germany. The functions and the values of languages involved will be discussed. Particular attention will be given to the attitudes and representations of the participants of the study.
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2013. ‘Language is only a tool’: Japanese expatriates working in China and implications for language teaching. Multilingual Education 3:1
Kubota, Ryuko
2015. Inequalities of Englishes, English Speakers, and Languages: A Critical Perspective on Pluralist Approaches to English. In Unequal Englishes, ► pp. 21 ff.
Kubota, Ryuko
2016. Neoliberal paradoxes of language learning: xenophobia and international communication. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 37:5 ► pp. 467 ff.
Kubota, Ryuko
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2019. Transnational Traders’ Discourse: Informal Language Policy Emerging in a South African Chinatown. Language Matters 50:1 ► pp. 3 ff.
van der Worp, Karin, Jasone Cenoz & Durk Gorter
2018. Multilingual professionals in internationally operating companies: tensions in their linguistic repertoire?. Multilingua 37:4 ► pp. 353 ff.
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