Pre-interaction management in multinational companies in Central Europe  

Oleh:

Nekvapil, Jiri ; Sherman, Tamah

Jenis: Article from Journal
Dalam koleksi: Current Issues in Language Planning vol. 10 no. 2 (2009), page 181-198.
Topik: language management; interaction; multilingualism; business communication
Fulltext: Vol. 10, No. 2, May 2009, 181–198.pdf (329.74KB)

Isi artikel

This article is devoted to the linguistic, communicative and sociocultural situation in branches of multinational companies located in the Czech Republic and Hungary. There are typically several languages used in these branches. In addition to the local languages, there are the languages of the parent companies – most commonly English or German, and also French. The core of the article is the description of the strategies on various levels of the company used to manage problems anticipated in future interactions. We demonstrate that these strategies originate as the result of communication problems the employees have already experienced and are created and reproduced in anticipation of similar problems in the future. We place emphasis on the close relationship between the way in which individuals systematically solve language and communication problems and how multinational companies do so, and we thus contribute to the further investigation of the interplay between micro- and macro-language planning. The article has its theoretical basis in language management theory as conceived by J.V. Neustupny´ and B.H. Jernudd, but its ambition is also to develop the theory further, above all through the concept of preinteraction management.

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