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Nieporowski, Piotr; Steciag, Magdalena; Zábranský, Lukáš – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
The following article attempts to characterise the current changes in the communication of people living in the area of Polish-Czech borderland based on the results of the study conducted in 2018 and 2019. The aim is to determine the dominant mode of supranational communication, as well as the reason behind its prevalence by analysing the language…
Descriptors: Polish, Slavic Languages, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Inkaew, Manachai – rEFLections, 2018
To study the success of an international event handling in Thailand with a focus on the area of mutual communication, this paper aimed to shed light on how English is used as a lingua franca among the local Thai working team and the organizer team who are non-native speakers from different language backgrounds to achieve their mutual understanding…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Intercultural Communication, Competition
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Braunmüller, Kurt – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2013
This paper tries to give answers for successful receptive multilingualism (RM) but also for its failure. It is mainly based on the results of two projects, one on inter-dialectal communication in the Baltic area during the era of the Hanseatic League and the other analyses inter-Scandinavian communication today. The main purpose of this survey is…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Receptive Language, Native Language, Indo European Languages
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Grimes, Barbara F. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1985
Describes the complex multilingual situation that exists among the Tucanoan language groups in Columbia and Brazil, which illustrates interrelationships among cultural patterns and values, language attitudes, language use, and language survival. The groups are patrilineal and patrilocal; thus one's primary language is one's father's primary…
Descriptors: Bidialectalism, Cultural Background, Diglossia, Ethnic Groups