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Lost in Translation? An Analysis of the Role of English as the Lingua Franca of Multilingual Business Communication (Doktorarbeit)Zum Shop

Lost in Translation? An Analysis of the Role of English as the Lingua Franca of Multilingual Business Communication

PHILOLOGIA – Sprachwissenschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

The study explores the influence of English as a lingua franca on multilingual business texts, in the context of the growing Americanisation of German business communication. It is based on the central hypothesis that the dominance of lingua franca English leads to a convergence with Anglophone text conventions in translations into German. This hypothesis is tested using two genres within annual reports: letters to shareholders and corporate statements, which include texts such as visions, missions, and corporate values. [...]

Annual reportContrastive pragmaticsCorporate rhetoricDeutschEnglischEnglishGermanIntercultural business communicationInterkulturelle WirtschaftskommunikationKommunikationKontrastive PragmatikLanguage changeLanguage contactLingua FrancaLingua franca communicationMehrsprachigkeitMultilingual business communicationMultilingualismSprachkontaktSprachwandelSprachwissenschaftText linguisticsTextlinguistikTranslation Studies