Publications

Publication details [#60258]

Lønsmann, Dorte. 2015. Language ideologies in a Danish company with English as a corporate language: ‘it has to be English’. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 36 (4) : 339–356.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

business language | communicative efficiency | international context | lingua franca | workplace conversation

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This ethnographic study discusses language ideologies in a Danish international company's workplace which construct English as sole possible pick for international communication, thus disclaiming the use of other foreign languages (and the local language) for this purpose.