Language use in international organisations

Thursday 1 September
09.30-10.00 Coffee and mingling
10.00-10.30

Welcome

Beate Sandvei, Head of Department, Professional and Intercultural Communication & Annelise Ly, Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)

10.30-11.00

Language in international management

Philippe Lecomte, GEM&L, French Research Group on Management & Language

11:00–11:30

Relationship between BELF and corporate language over the years

Anne Kankaanranta, Aalto University

11:30–12:30 Lunch 
12:30–13:00

Overt prestige and ‘covert’ practices: An analysis of linguistic choices and language practices in an international company based in Sweden

Beyza Björkman Nylén, Stockholm University

13:00–13:30

If not English as a lingua franca, then what?

Guro R. Sanden, University of Gothenburg

13:30–14:00

Lessons from BELF for teaching leadership communication

Miya Komori-Glatz, Vienna University of Economics and Business

14:00–14:30 Break
14:30–15:00

Expressing disagreement in English as a lingua franca – how does a business context differ from everyday interaction?

Kaisa Pietikäinen, NHH

15:00–15:30

Openings and closings in workplace emails: How do people navigate without clear standards and clearly prescribed formulae?

Kristin Rygg, NHH

Friday 2 September
09:00–09:30 Coffee
09:30–10:00

How meaning and language structure play a role in cross-cultural communication

Marie-Therese Claes, Vienna University of Economics and Business

10:00–10:30

Language Management in a Multinational Workforce: The Knowledge Worker Perspective revisited. Can standpoint theory offer new insights?

Sunniva Whittaker, University of Agder/NHH

10:30–11:00

Linguistic glass-ceiling? Highly skilled migrants’ sensemaking of local language proficiency in professional settings in Norway

Annelise Ly, NHH

11:00–11:30 Closing session
11:30–12:30 Lunch

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