Managing communications in multilingual workplaces

TIETZE, Susanne, BLACK, Hilla and PIEKKARI, Rebecca (2021). Managing communications in multilingual workplaces. In: COOREN, Francois and STUCHELI-HERLACH, Peter, (eds.) Handbook of Management Communication. Handbooks of Applied Linguistics (16). De Gruyter Mouton.

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Abstract

This chapter is concerned with communication among diverse employees in multilingual workplaces. These employees belong to different cultural and language groups and collectively negotiate meaning and language use on a daily basis. They make decisions whether to use English as a bridge language, to engage in translation or rely on non-verbal communication. These acts of communication are expressive and constitutive of organizations as well as “processes of meaning production and negotiation” (Schoeneborn, Kuhn, and Kärreman 2018: 476). This chapter joins the tradition called Communication Constitutes Organizations (CCO) whose central tenet is that organizations come into being, persist, and are changed through communication practices (Cooren, Taylor, and van Every 2006). According to this tradition, communication is not only about transmitting messages – it is also and especially about communication taking on a role of a performative, agentic force in organizations.

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	translation; Department of Management
SWORD Depositor:	Symplectic Elements
Depositing User:	Symplectic Elements
Date Deposited:	12 Oct 2020 12:59
Last Modified:	12 Oct 2020 13:00
URI:	http://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/27376

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