Language, Medical Tourism and the Enterprising Self

Autor/inn/en	Muth, Sebastian; Suryanarayan, Neelakshi
Titel	Language, Medical Tourism and the Enterprising Self
Quelle	In: Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 39 (2020) 3, S.321-342 (22 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Muth, Sebastian)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0167-8507
DOI	10.1515/multi-2019-0006
Schlagwörter	Tourism; Health Services; Language Usage; Entrepreneurship; Indians; Ethnography; Language Skills; Patients; Service Occupations; Networks; Sociolinguistics; Language Research; Foreign Countries; Second Languages; Translation; Global Approach; Medical Services; Mobility; English (Second Language); Language Proficiency; Russian; Costs; Turkic Languages; Multilingualism; Languages for Special Purposes; Urdu; Native Language; Indo European Languages; Occupational Aspiration; College Graduates + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Tourismus; Health service; Gesundheitsdienst; Gesundheitswesen; Sprachgebrauch; Unternehmungsgeist; Inder; Ethnografie; Language skill; Sprachkompetenz; Patient; Dienstleistungsberuf; Soziolinguistik; Sprachforschung; Ausland; Second language; Zweitsprache; Globales Denken; Arzt; Mobilität; Mobilitätsförderung; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Language skills; Russisch; Cost; Kosten; Turkish; Türkisch; Mehrsprachigkeit; Multilingualismus; Sprachhandlungsfähigkeit; Indoeuropäisch; Berufsneigung; Berufsziel; Hochschulabsolvent; Hochschulabsolventin
Abstract	This paper aims to demonstrate the implications of health mobility on language practices in the medical tourism industry in India and on the ways, language workers become entrepreneurs. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork that traces the trajectories of three former students of Russian, we highlight their future aspirations as language learners and entrepreneurs and show, how they attempt to capitalize on language skills and respond to changing conditions and patient movements within the structures, constraints and uncertainties of the linguistic market. Here, it is our aim to illustrate what it takes to become an enterprising and successful language worker and at the same time highlight their current positioning as emblematic yet subordinate figures within a fast-growing service industry in an emerging economy. We further demonstrate, how language skills not only become commodities to serve existing or future markets, but instead are recast as tools that can be strategically employed to secure recognition and access to prestigious and lucrative professional networks. In doing so, this paper illustrates how linguistic value is produced in a service industry that to date only received little attention in sociolinguistic research. (As Provided).
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