Multilingual organizations as 'linguascapes': Negotiating the position of English through discursive practices

Journal of World Business

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 270-278

  Steyaert, Chris ^a   Ostendorp, Anja ^a   Gaibrois, Claudine ^a  

^a Research Institute for Organizational Psychology   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Discourse analysis; Englishization; Globalization from below; Linguascape; Negotiated multilingualism

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957826120     PISSN: 10909516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jwb.2010.07.003     Document Type: Article

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