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Gong, Eleanor Yue – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2023
This paper offers a historiographic and ethnographic analysis of how reflexivity, as a communicative practice and valued personality trait, has been understood, regulated, legitimised and used to control Chinese workers from the planned-economy era to the present. Using a Shanghai-based multinational company as a case study, I document how and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Chinese, Language Usage
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Dijkstra, Bianca E.; Coler, Matt; Redeker, Gisela – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2021
Although international truckers are essential to the European supply chain, we know little about how they deal with their frequent multilingual workplace interactions. This paper examines the effects of participants' Individual Multilingual Repertoires (Pitzl, Marie-Luise. 2016. World Englishes and creative idioms in English as a lingua franca.…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Work Environment, Indo European Languages, Polish
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ONeill, Gary Thomas – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2017
This ethnographic case study examines the factors that contribute to multilingual choices and the construction of identities in a linguistically diverse family within a linguistically diverse city, Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Based on interviews with a female Emirati in her early thirties, the article examines this young woman's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Concept, Ethnic Diversity, Cultural Pluralism