1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910785184003321

Titolo

Multilingualism at work [[electronic resource] ] : from policies to practices in public, medical and business settings / / edited by Bernd Meyer and Birgit Apfelbaum

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2010

ISBN

1-282-66335-6

9786612663352

90-272-8802-X

Descrizione fisica

vi, 274 p

Collana

Hamburg studies on multilingualism ; ; v. 9

Altri autori (Persone)

MeyerBernd

ApfelbaumBirgit

Disciplina

306.44/6

Soggetti

Multilingualism

Language acquisition

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Multilingualism at work: a brief introduction / Birgit Apfelbaum and Bernd Meyer -- -- Public sector. Linguistic competence and professional identity in English medium instruction / Juliane House and Magdalène Lévy-Tödter -- The multilingual organization of remembrance in Nazi camp memorials / Birgit Apfelbaum -- Achieving bilingualism in the Canadian federal public workplace: Does language training matter? / Guillaume Gentil, Josée Bigras and Maureen O'Connor -- Medical sector. Managing linguistic diversity in a South African HIV/AIDS day clinic / Christine Anthonissen -- Interpreter-mediated interaction as a way to promote multilingualism / Claudio Baraldi and Laura Gavioli -- Nurses as interpreters? Aspects of interpreter training for bilingual medical employees / Bernd Meyer, Kristin Bührig, Ortrun Kliche and Birte Pawlack -- Business sector.  Conflicting discourses of rapport and co-membership: multilingual gatekeeping encounters at a day labor center in southern Arizona / Elise DuBord -- Plurilingual practices at multilingual workplaces / Georges Lüdi, Katharina Höchle and Patchareerat Yanaprasart -- Do other languages than English matter? International career development of highly-qualified



professionals / Maria Amelina -- Multilingual business writing: The case of crisis communication / Kristin Bührig and Claudia Böttger.