Essays about: "English business"

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1. 1. WHAT CHANGES WHEN YOU USE ENGLISH AT WORK? A STUDY OF ENGLISH AS A LINGUA FRANCA IN MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS IN CHINA

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Author : Huan Luo; [2023-02-17]
   Keywords : English; English as a lingua franca; ELF; intercultural communication; workplace; multinational corporations; MNCs; China;

   Abstract : This study investigated when Chinese business professionals use English as a lingua franca to communicate in the workplace, what changes, and why and how the changes happen. 14 respondents who had Chinese as L1 and English as at least one of their working languages participated in the open-ended questions survey. READ MORE

3. 2. Social class representations and construction of entrepreneurial identities in Swedish ELT textbooks

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Cristina Elena Staicu; [2023]
   Keywords : Neoliberalism; social class; social inequality; entrepreneurialism; English textbooks; ELT; Sweden;

   Abstract : Modern societies across the globe have been deeply transformed by the rise of capitalism and neoliberalism in the last century. This has had a significant impact on education which has been reconfigured to meet the needs of the market rather than the needs of the learner. READ MORE

4. 3. Displays of Deference, Projections of Power : The English East India Company in Japan, 1615–1622

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionen

   Author : Tami Hioki; [2023]
   Keywords : English East India Company; Hirado; Japan; Richard Cocks; Tokugawa shogunate; connected histories; cosmopolitanism; power relations; global interactions;

   Abstract : From 1613 to 1623, the English East India Company (EIC) maintained a trading post at Hirado, Japan. This trading post was one of the first that the EIC established, and because England was far from the empire it would one day become, Company members had to adjust to local customs and respect the laws of Japan in order to conduct business there. READ MORE

5. 4. Intermarriage Pattern Among Swedish Immigrants In the US in 1900 and 1910

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Linda Schalling; [2023]
   Keywords : Intermarriage; Immigration; Age of Mass Migration; US Census; Sweden; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : Intermarriage patterns are often referred to as a step in the social assimilation. However, previous research on is ambiguous in its result concerning differences in intermarriage pattern between genders. According to the theory intermarriage patterns are both influences by preferences and opportunities. READ MORE

6. 5. English Can Be Efficient within Swedish Business, Although Code Shifting Often Appears : A Study of English as a Lingua Franca in a Business Context at a Swedish Company

   University essay from Mälardalens universitet/Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation

   Author : Sandra Verrone; [2023]
   Keywords : English as a lingua franca ELF ; business English as lingua franca BELF ; semi-structured interviews; code shifting; native languages; foreign languages; Sweden;

   Abstract : This study aims to explore how the application of Business English as a Lingua Franca (BELF) is perceived among the employees at a chosen company, exploring to what extent BELF is used, and identifying opportunities and challenges of BELF. Using a qualitative research methodology conducted through semi-structured interviews, consisting of six participants, the study delves into the usage of BELF in a bigger Swedish company, how the employees experience it, and what factors matter for its outcome. READ MORE