Understanding the Dynamics of Language and Multilingualism in Professional Contexts

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Understanding the Dynamics of Language and Multilingualism in Professional Contexts is written by Philippe Lecomte and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1789906784 (ISBN 10) and 9781789906783 (ISBN 13).

This book provides readers with the latest research on the dynamics of language and language diversity in professional contexts. Bringing together novel findings from a range of disciplines, it challenges practitioners and management scholars to question the conventional understanding of language as words with stable meanings, an assumption which treats language as a tool that can be managed by language policies that ‘standardize’ language. Each of the contributions is designed to recognize the strides that have been made in the past two decades in research on language and languages in organizational settings while addressing remaining blind spots and emerging issues. Particular attention is given to multilingualism, sociolinguistic approaches to language in the workplace, migration challenges, critical perspectives on the power of language use and the management of organizations as dialogical, discursive spaces.