Publications

Publication details [#60199]

Sherman, Tamah. 2015. Behaving toward language in the Mormon mission: the Czech case. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2015 (232) : 33–57.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter

Annotation

This paper uses Language Management Theory to explore the language oriented conduct in the missionary program of the native English speaking Mormons in the Czech Republic. Czech acquisition and orientation to local sociolinguistic conditions and communicative customs allow missionaries to fulfll their job.