Language Use and Management in Mining Companies in the DRC - Open Access Library Journal

OALibJ > Vol.5 No.8, August 2018

Language Use and Management in Mining Companies in the DRC ()

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DOI: 10.4236/oalib.1104748 679 Downloads 2,258 Views

Author(s)

Mambo Kalume¹, Katsuva Ngoloma¹, Mulamba Nshindi¹, Phillipe Hambye², Kyungu Kibamba¹, Mukunda Mutombo¹

Affiliation(s)

¹English Department, University of Lubumbashi, Lubumbashi, DRC.
²French Department, University of Louvain-la-Neuve, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

ABSTRACT

This paper aims at highlighting how English is gaining momentum on tiptoe in the Democratic Republic of Congo through mining companies as its gateways, although the country traditionally belongs to Kachru’s Expanding Circle, and to which extent these mining companies, which to a large extent are branches of multinational companies, cope with language use and management within multilingual workplaces. The insights gained from various companies demonstrate that the adoption of English alone as a corporate language is not enough and that multilingual communication would be the best practice to overcome language barriers within these workplaces.

KEYWORDS

Language Use and Management, Mining Companies, Multinational Companies, DRC

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Kalume, M. , Ngoloma, K. , Nshindi, M. , Hambye, P. , Kibamba, K. and Mutombo, M. (2018) Language Use and Management in Mining Companies in the DRC. Open Access Library Journal, 5, 1-13. doi: 10.4236/oalib.1104748.

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