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Publication details [#66167]

Anthonissen, Christine and Miché Thompson. 2019. Transnational Traders’ Discourse: Informal Language Policy Emerging in a South African Chinatown. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa 50 (1) : 3–24.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
business language | foreign language proficiency | intercultural communication | language choice | language policy | lingua franca | migration | multilingualism | workplace conversation
Language as a subject
English
Place, Publisher
Routledge

Annotation

This inquiry regards the notion of “language policy” as it is practiced in evolving a foundation for business communication in a setting (here: in “China Town” shopping centres settled in the Western Cape) where interactants have reciprocally incomprehensible first languages and rather low English lingua franca competence.