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Language and globalization in Belgian corporate contexts : institutional, individual, and interactional perspectives
No full textAbstract: This dissertation examines the intricate interplay between language and globalization in corporate contexts against the complex and localized sociolinguistic background of Belgium. A qualitative case study approach is adopted to unravel the intricacies of this interplay from institutional, individual, and interactional perspectives, and the dissertation is structured into three empirical case studies on the basis of these three perspectives. The first case study examines the perspective of \u2018globalized institutions\u2019 at FinCorp (pseudonym), a Belgian multinational corporation headquartered in Brussels. Using a socio-historical approach, the study reconstructs the development of FinCorp\u2019s corporate language policy over the course of more than 20 years, and contextualizes these changes across regional, national, and international scales. The second case study explores the perspectives of \u2018globalized individuals\u2019 in a professional transnational workspace in Brussels, with a specific focus on language as part of the lives of professional transnational migrants who cross international borders with the aim of advancing their careers. Overall, this case study aims to explore the importance and relevance of language as part of privileged migration, both in terms of linguistic repertoire and how language is used in interaction to construct migration-related and national identity categories. The third case study centers on \u2018globalized interactions\u2019 through a focus on performance appraisals at GlobalCorp (pseudonym), a small company in Flanders which operates globally. Through research foci on the role of small talk, the use of different multilingual strategies, and the varied ways in which negative feedback is formulated through talk and text in these types of interactions, this case study aims to highlight the role, complexity, and importance of language in corporate performance appraisals. By concurrently examining these institutional, individual, and interactional perspectives, this dissertation argues that they are inherently intertwined, as each perspective is influenced by and simultaneously influences the others. Moreover, contextualizing the research within the specific sociolinguistic context of Belgium enriches our understanding of how language dynamics operate within the broader framework of corporate globalization, and in doing so, this research contributes novel insights on the complex dynamics at the intersection of language and globalization in corporate contexts
L’autopromotion en contraste : une analyse sémantico-pragmatique des résumés LinkedIn publiés en France et aux Etats-Unis
Get PDFCette contribution est vouée à la description cross-culturelle des stratégies d’autopromotion utilisées par des professionnels de la communication français et américains dans leur résumé publié sur LinkedIn. En mettant à contribution un corpus de quelques 200 résumés, l’analyse porte, plus précisément, sur la sélection des stratégies sémantico-pragmatiques destinées à présenter l’auteur comme un professionnel compétent. S’inscrivant dans le cadre théorique de la politesse, l’étude met au jour quelques différences qui se laissent rattacher à des différences plus générales situées sur le plan du style de communication. Ainsi, certaines caractéristiques des résumés français pointent vers un style de communication davantage orienté sur l’implicite, alors que les résumés américains présentent plus de traits d’un style de communication explicite. Par ailleurs, il s’est avéré aussi que les modes d’autopromotion français et américain semblent reposer (partiellement) sur des « constructions de soi » différentes : si les résumés américains manifestent plus de caractéristiques d’une construction de soi indépendante, les résumés français présentent plus de traits d’une construction de soi interdépendante.This contribution presents a cross-cultural analysis of self-praise strategies used by French and American communication professionals in their LinkedIn summary. Based on a corpus of some 200 summaries, the analysis focuses on the selection of the semantico-pragmatic strategies aimed at presenting the author as a skilful professional. Within the theoretical framework of politeness, the study reveals some differences that can be linked to more general differences in communication style. Some characteristics of French summaries point to a more implicit communication style, while American summaries have more features of an explicit communication style. Moreover, the data tend to show that the French and American modes of self-promotion are (partially) based on different "self-construals": whereas American summaries show more characteristics of an independent self-construal, French summaries show more of the features of an interdependent self-building
Do we still understand each other? A cross-cultural analysis of discourse practices in French and Dutch television debates
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A chacun son tour: analyse comparative des styles conversationnels des néerlandophones et des francophones de Belgique dans des débats télévisés
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At each turn: comparative analysis of conversational styles of Dutch and Belgian francophones in television debates
No full textThis paper offers a comparison of the conversation styles of Dutch speaking vs. French speaking Belgians as they appear in two comparable television debates, broadcast by the two Belgian public television channels (the Dutch one and the francophone one). Both the careful study of "openers" and of turn-taking (especially the number of overlapping syllables) show that the style of the Dutch speaking participants appears as more level-headed, more wavering and more consensual than the discourse style of the French speaking ones. These data confirm some of the findings discussed in the literature about the conversation style of (hexagonal) French speakers
L'attribut de l'objet avec et sans comme. Types de prédications et rapports avec le verbe recteur
No full textPredicationele en specificationele objectcomplementen in het Frans. Belang van informatiestructuur en implicaties voor de woordvolgorde
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