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Publication details [#57654]

Angouri, Jo. 2013. The multilingual reality of the multinational workplace: language policy and language use. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 34 (6) : 564–581.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language policy | language use | lingua franca | multilingualism | workplace conversation

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This study problematises the degree to which language use dynamics are mirrored in multinational companies' language policy. It shows that employees frame multilingualism as a ‘given reality’ and a ‘chance’ and give prominence to the social aspect of workplace non-L1 language use.