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| Autor/in | Ehrenreich, Susanne |
|---|---|
| Titel | Lingua Franca Englishes in internationalen Unternehmen: Stand der Forschung und Zwischenbilanz eines Forschungsprojekts. |
| Quelle | In: Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 35 (2010) 1, S. 7-42 |
| Beigaben | Anmerkungen |
| Sprache | deutsch |
| Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
| ISSN | 0171-5410 |
| Schlagwörter | Kultur; Empirische Forschung; Gesellschaft; Einstellung (Psy); Interkulturelle Kommunikation; Deutschland; Diskurs; Englisch; Englischunterricht; Fachsprache; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Gesellschaft; Wirtschaft; Hochschule; Soziolinguistik; Kultur; Berufsbezug; Forschungsprojekt; Sprachgebrauch; Diskursanalyse; Empirische Forschung; Lehrerausbildung; Methodik; Diskursanalyse; Lingua franca; Native Speaker; Soziolinguistik; Sprachgebrauch; Varietät; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Englisch; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Englischunterricht; Wirtschaft; Berufsbezug; Hochschule; Diskurs; Fachsprache; Forschungsüberblick; Situationsbericht; Forschungsprojekt; Deutschland |
| Abstract | International business is one of the main domains in which English is used in its function as today's global lingua franca. However, despite a significant increase over the past few years in empirical studies investigating various aspects of English as a lingua franca communication in a number of contexts, research in the business domain is still scarce. This is a gap which the author seeks to fill with her research project on the role of English in German multinational companies. Employing an ethnographic approach, the linguistic realities as experienced by mid-to-top-level managers are explored using in-depth interviews, participant observation and shadowing of individual managers, as well as recordings of spoken and written data. In the paper, recent developments in the nascent field of English as a lingua franca studies are surveyed bringing together a range of linguistic approaches as well as perspectives from intercultural business communication. Against this backdrop preliminary findings of the author's study are presented. She describes a number of contexts of language use and looks at the attitudes of this specific group of language users towards English as a lingua franca (ELF). Above all, the study reveals the high degree of linguistic, intercultural and strategic flexibility which is required of ELF users in international business contexts. Highly complex interactions have to be managed with speakers of English as a second or foreign language of varying linguistic proficiencies as well as with native speakers of English from almost all "Inner Circle" countries (cf. Kachru 1982/1992). The establishment of potential pedagogical implications of the observations made in the world of international business promises to be an interesting, worthwhile, and challenging task. (Verlag, adapt.). |
| Erfasst von | Informationszentrum für Fremdsprachenforschung, Marburg |
| Update | 2022/3 |
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