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Pre-Interaction Management in Multinational Companies in Central Europe
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Nekvapil, Jiri; Sherman, Tamah – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2009
This article is devoted to the linguistic, communicative and sociocultural situation in branches of multinational companies located in the Czech Republic and Hungary. There are typically several languages used in these branches. In addition to the local languages, there are the languages of the parent companies--most commonly English or German,…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Communication Problems, Interpersonal Communication, Foreign Countries
The Ecological Impact of a Dictionary.
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Liddicoat, Anthony J. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2000
Discusses the impact of the development of a dictionary of Jersey Norman French. The dictionary has created a perception among speakers of Jersey French that they did not know the language. This perception appears to be the result of the ecological change that the dictionary produced by repositioning the language from an oral habitat to a written…
Descriptors: Dictionaries, Foreign Countries, French, Language Planning
Is It Aulua or Education Dressed up in "Kastom"? A Report on the Ongoing Negotiation of Literacy and Identity in a Ni Vanuatu Community
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Paviour-Smith, Martin – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2005
This paper reports on two critical incidents in the progress towards implementing a vernacular language programme in the village school at Aulua, Malakula, in Vanuatu. In stage one of the fieldwork, (2000-1) an orthography was created by a committee. An element of the second stage of the project (2004-5) was a workshop to create the primers and…
Descriptors: Reading Materials, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Workshops