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Publication details [#57955]

Lüdi, Georges. 2013. Receptive multilingualism as a strategy for sharing mutual linguistic resources in the workplace in a Swiss context. The International Journal of Multilingualism 10 (2) : 140–158.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

code-switching | language use | multilingualism | problem solving | workplace conversation

Language as a subject

English | Swiss

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This paper presents the alternative strategy of receptive multilingualism, based on a ‘multilanguaging’ philosophy, for jointly and simultaneously mobilising mutual verbal and non-verbal resources -including English and regional languages- in order to locally solve practical obstacles in multilingual (Swiss) workplaces.