Reference : Language ecology as a centripetal force for the multilingual workplace
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Arts & humanities : Languages & linguistics
Multilingualism and Intercultural Studies
http://hdl.handle.net/10993/35021
Language ecology as a centripetal force for the multilingual workplace
English
Ehrhart, Sabine[University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Education, Culture, Cognition and Society (ECCS) >]
Institut de linguistique de l'Université de Neuchâtel
Yes
International
1023-2044
Neuchâtel
Switzerland
Colloque VALS-ASLA
from 20-01-2016 to 22-01-2016
Université de Genève
Genève
Switzerland
[en] multilingual workplace ; language ecology ; language policy ; intercultural dialogue
[en] In this contribution, I will present examples of common practice to overcome barriers, bridge boundaries and deconstruct borders at the workplace; these are centripetal or democratizing forces as they try to reduce the distance between people of different origins by creating inclusive spaces. My contribution to a comparative perspective comes from the field of ecolinguistics, a rather new discipline which tries to combine various interdisciplinary approaches in the field of
communication, especially in complex environments, with a high diversity of linguistic systems