Multilingualism at work
Subtitle: from policies to practices in public, medical and business settings
By: edited by Bernd Meyer, Birgit Apfelbaum
Series: Hamburg Studies on multilingualism -- v. 9; Hamburg studies on multilingualism -- v. 9.
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Co.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9789027219299; 9789027288028
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Multilingualism at work: a brief introduction / Birgit Apfelbaum and Bernd Meyer; title: Public sector. Linguistic competence and professional identity in English medium instruction / Juliane House and Magdalène Lévy-Tödter; title: The multilingual organization of remembrance in Nazi camp memorials / Birgit Apfelbaum; title: Achieving bilingualism in the Canadian federal public workplace: Does language training matter? / Guillaume Gentil, Josée Bigras and Maureen O'Connor; title: Medical sector. Managing linguistic diversity in a South African HIV/AIDS day clinic / Christine Anthonissen; title: Interpreter-mediated interaction as a way to promote multilingualism / Claudio Baraldi and Laura Gavioli; title: Nurses as interpreters? Aspects of interpreter training for bilingual medical employees / Bernd Meyer, Kristin Bührig, Ortrun Kliche and Birte Pawlack; title: Business sector.  Conflicting discourses of rapport and co-membership: multilingual gatekeeping encounters at a day labor center in southern Arizona / Elise DuBord; title: Plurilingual practices at multilingual workplaces / Georges Lüdi, Katharina Höchle and Patchareerat Yanaprasart; title: Do other languages than English matter? International career development of highly-qualified professionals / Maria Amelina; title: Multilingual business writing: The case of crisis communication / Kristin Bührig and Claudia Böttger.