Publications
Publication details [#65447]
Muth, Sebastian. 2018. “The ideal Russian speaker is no Russian”: language commodification and its limits in medical tourism to Switzerland. Language Policy 17 (2) : 217–237. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Springer
Annotation
This study on language commodification and its limits in medical tourism to Switzerland (S) underlines how Russian as a linguistic resource is managed at Mountain Medical Resort and Lakeside Hospital in (S) to attend to visiting international patients.