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Multilingualism at the workplace (2017)

Coray R. and Duchêne A. (2017), Multilingualism at the workplace (Executive summary), Institut für Mehrsprachigkeit [www.institut-mehrsprachigkeit.ch] / Institut de plurilinguisme [www.institut-plurilinguisme.ch], Fribourg.

Executive summary (in German, French, Italian, Rumantsch and English) of an extensive literature review, published in German (available at www.zentrum-mehrsprachigkeit.ch/forschung/literaturberichte.html), which focuses on sociolinguistic research in Europe from the end of the 20th century onward. Topics covered include language and work, multilingualism in a changing work environment, access to the labour market and language as a gatekeeper, linguistic socialisation at work and in job training programmes, managing language diversity, multilingual practices at work, and valorisation of multilingualism at work.
Country: Switzerland
Language: Multilingual
Date: 2010s
Criteria: Scientific

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