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dc.contributor.authorHiss, Florian
dc.contributor.authorLoppacher, Anna
dc.date.accessioned2021-08-13T09:09:17Z
dc.date.available2021-08-13T09:09:17Z
dc.date.issued2021-05-27
dc.description.abstractLinguistic and cultural diversity in Northern Norwegian working life has increased dramatically in the twenty-first century. Based on a series of telephone interviews with company representatives, this article presents an overview of the new multilingual reality in many workplaces and analyzes how managers and administrators position their expectations and experiences of it. Participants’ responses suggest that many workplaces are linguistically segregated. Though most participants said their companies did not have explicit workplace language policies, they expressed clear perceptions of how things should be in their workplaces, and these were often in conflict with their descriptions of the status quo. We also show how multiple contextual conditions in and out of workplaces, both ideological and practical, informed participants’ accounts of multilingual practices in their workplaces. Static and normative ideological positions are challenged by employees’ language choices, practices, and developments on a societal level, particularly those of the labour market, which regulates companies’ access to workers. Our study reveals the need for applicable knowledge about multilingual practices and sociolinguistic relations in workplaces.en_US
dc.identifier.citationHiss F, Loppacher AL. “The working language is Norwegian. Not that this means anything, it seems”: when expectations meet the new multilingual reality. Acta Borealia. 2021;38(1):43-59en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1913102
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/08003831.2021.1911201
dc.identifier.issn0800-3831
dc.identifier.issn1503-111X
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/22033
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_US
dc.relation.journalActa Borealia
dc.relation.projectIDNorges forskningsråd: 236865en_US
dc.relation.projectIDinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/RCN/SAMKUL/236865/Norway/Linguistic and cultural diversity at work//en_US
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2021 The Author(s)en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Social science: 200::Education: 280en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Pedagogiske fag: 280en_US
dc.title“The working language is Norwegian. Not that this means anything, it seems”: when expectations meet the new multilingual realityen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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