Publications

Publication details [#57957]

Berthele, Raphael and Gabriele Wittlin. 2013. Receptive multilingualism in the Swiss Army. The International Journal of Multilingualism 10 (2) : 181–195.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

armed forces | institutional context | language use | minority language | multilingualism

Language as a subject

German, Swiss

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

Receptive multilingualism appears one of the various coping strategies used in the increasingly linguistically mixed Swiss Army, where language minority recruits face almost monolingual German instructions.