Cross-border workers; transnationality; transborder region; Luxembourg; intercultural communication; language ideologies
Abstract :
[en] The trilingual country of Luxembourg accounts for the highest percentage of cross-border workers in the European Union. These workers commute daily from France, Belgium and Germany to Luxembourg. Their presence in the national labour market results in increasing linguistic and cultural diversity at Luxembourgish workplaces. Drawing upon interview and interactional data, the present contribution is the first to investigate how cross-border workers in Luxembourg perceive and deal with multilingualism and interculturality, and presents a range of related linguistic and intercultural practices.
Disciplines :
Languages & linguistics Arts & humanities: Multidisciplinary, general & others Human geography & demography Regional & inter-regional studies
Author, co-author :
Wille, Christian ; University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Identités, Politiques, Sociétés, Espaces (IPSE)
De Bres, Julia ; University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Identités, Politiques, Sociétés, Espaces (IPSE)
Franziskus, Anne; Luxembourg National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies
Language :
English
Title :
Intercultural work environments in Luxembourg. Multilingualism and cultural diversity among cross-border workers at the workplace
