Ebook: Multilingualism at work : from policies to practices in public, medical and business settings
Author: Bernd Meyer, Birgit Apfelbaum
- Series: Hamburg studies on multilingualism v. 9
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Co
- City: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia
- Language: English
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This volume focuses on work situations in Europe, North America and South-Africa, such as academic, medical and public sector, or business settings, in which participants have to make constant use of more than one language to cooperate with partners, clients, or colleagues. Central questions are how the social and linguistic organization of work is adapted to the necessity of using different languages and howRead more...