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Multilingualism at work : from policies to practices in public, medical and business settings /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©2010.
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| Colección: | Hamburg studies on multilingualism ;
v. 9. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 how multilingualism impinges on the communicative outcome of different types of discourse or genres. Thus, the authors are all interested in multilingual practices 'at work', which is to say. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vi, 274 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027288028 902728802X 9789027219299 902721929X |