34.2675, Calls: Linguistic Diversity in Professional Settings: Needs, Policies and Practices

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Subject: 34.2675, Calls: Linguistic Diversity in Professional Settings: Needs, Policies and Practices

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Date: 11-Sep-2023
From: Magdalena Zehetgruber [magdalena.zehetgruber at wu.ac.at]
Subject: Linguistic Diversity in Professional Settings: Needs, Policies and Practices

Full Title: Linguistic Diversity in Professional Settings: Needs,
Policies and Practices

Date: 02-May-2024 - 03-May-2024
Location: Vienna, Austria
Contact Person: Magdalena Zehetgruber
Meeting Email: linguistic_div at wu.ac.at
Web Site: https://www.wu.ac.at/linguisticdiversity/

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis;
Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics

Call Deadline: 30-Nov-2023

Meeting Description:

This conference aims to gain insights into the needs, policies and
practices when dealing with linguistic diversity in professional
settings. It will bring together researchers and practitioners to
discuss:
- how different organizations deal with linguistic diversity
- which problems and challenges arise related to linguistic diversity
in professional settings
- how linguistic diversity can enrich professional settings
- which practices respond particularly well to linguistic diversity in
professional settings
- how teaching languages for professional purposes can address
communication within linguistic diversity

Call for Papers:

In our globalized society, marked by the internationalization of
companies and growing workforce mobility, professional encounters
become increasingly multilingual. The growing linguistic diversity in
professional settings represents an enrichment and a challenge at a
societal, corporate and individual level. In searching for ways of
communicating efficiently within this diversity, linguistic and
communicative skills can be seen as capital and multilingualism even
as a prerequisite for success on the global market.

Nevertheless, not all kinds of linguistic diversity, not being limited
to national standard varieties of languages, are equally valued in
this regard and the advantages of plurilingual repertoires are often
not realized. Managing linguistic diversity as part of an
organisation’s diversity management can therefore become an instrument
of inclusion but also of exclusion, both of which can be studied from
various angles.

In professional settings, communicative efficiency represents an
overarching goal that cannot always be achieved easily. Several
approaches can be found in order to attain successful communication
across languages, ranging from implementing a corporate language, over
laisser-faire policies and lay translation up to drawing on
professional language services. However, if those in charge of
language policies only consider the technical aspect of languages,
other functions of language and communication such as identity
construction or building trust are easily forgotten.
Linguistic diversity can be seen as a process and a product of work.
With changing means of communication, also accelerated by the Covid-19
pandemic having led to a proliferation of remote work models and
online communication channels, innovative approaches need to be taken
into consideration. Technical advances such as the fast development of
artificial intelligence allow for new ways of communicating across
languages but also induce new questions and challenges.

This conference aims to gain insights into the needs, policies and
practices when dealing with linguistic diversity in professional
settings. It will bring together researchers and practitioners to
discuss:
• how different organizations deal with linguistic diversity
• which problems and challenges arise related to linguistic diversity
in professional settings
• how linguistic diversity can enrich professional settings
• which practices respond particularly well to linguistic diversity in
professional settings
• how teaching languages for professional purposes can address
communication within linguistic diversity

In line with this focus, we welcome contributions on a wide variety of
professional contexts and languages. Specifically, abstracts are
invited for a 20-minute presentation on any of the following topics:
• Linguistic diversity in multilingual and international
organizational environments
• Conversation/multimodal/discourse analysis of multilingual
professional settings
• Linguistic landscaping in professional contexts (hospitals, public
institutions, etc.)
• Linguistic diversity within diversity management
• Language policies and policymakers in professional settings
• Teaching foreign languages for professional purposes within
linguistic diversity

Conference languages
We would like to make linguistic diversity visible throughout the
conference. Therefore, we ask for your abstract in English and in one
additional language (German, Romance languages, Slavic languages, or
other languages in accordance with the organizing committee).
If selected for the conference, the presentation should be given in a
different language than the presentation slides (one of both being
English).

Submission of abstracts
• Length: 300 words max.
• Format: *.doc or *.docx
• Deadline: November, 30th 2023
Please send your abstract including title, author(s) and affiliation
to: linguistic_div at wu.ac.at

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