Managing corporate language diversity

White, Martin

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“…Regarding the phenomenon of professional multilingualism, it was investigated that particularly organisations with offices in more than one country are more likely to face problems in managing access to foreignlanguage information [19]. In general, research on these issues and potential solutions only emerged in the mid-1980s, but since then the pace has accelerated rapidly and the topic is now seen as an important aspect of international business management.…”

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Exploring Multilingualism in Professional Context: Scientometric Analysis

Aimoldina,

Zharkynbekova

2023

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Professional multilingualism has been the subject of multiple interdisciplinaryresearch including sociolinguistics and business communication as well as studies aboutthe neuropsychological aspects of the multilingual brain and multilinguals’ languagepractices in the workplace settings. In recent years, there has been a noteworthy growth inthe scholarly interests and contribution in professional multilingualism. In this researchstudy, a bibliometric analytical technique is used to examine the concept of professionalmultilingualism. The purpose of this study is to analyse the bibliographical data to find therecent scenario of Scopus as well as Web of Science (WoS) core collections pertaining toprofessional multilingualism literature. Based on the scientometric methodology conductedin October 2022, the authors retrieved publications using the key terms like “Professionalmultilingualism” or “Multilingualism at work” or “Business communication”, etc. that ingeneral extracted 3,875 scientific contributions. Therefore, the time frame considered for thisstudy is between 1970 and 2022. The study analyses the growth of author productivity, thepublication models, the distribution of the thematic category, the distribution of the author’skeywords, the country of publications, as well as the most frequently cited articles related toprofessional multilingualism publications and other aspects. In addition, the result identifiedthe significant areas related to professional multilingualism focuses on Corporate Language,Multilingualism, Language Policy, Language Management, Intercultural Communication.Future research could extend a similar study in other related areas in professional languageteaching-learning to explore the publication trends globally.

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