Cultural Diversity: Conceptual Approaches
Cultural diversity is, as biodiversity, an element of the common heritage of humanity, whose defense is an ethical imperative inseparable from respect for the dignity of the human person.
Сіміон Рошка
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Are ‘diversity management' and monolingualism compatible? About learning and using foreign languages in a context of globalisation: Sind ,diversity management' und Einsprachigkeit kompatibel? Vom Fremdsprachenlernen und -gebrauch unter dem Einfluss der Globalisierung [PDF]
Ideologies and communication practices vary hugely in multilingual workplaces. On the one hand, many companies include Diversity Management in their corporate culture because there are theoretical and empirical reasons to believe that a company which ...
Lüdi, Georges
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Religious, Ethnic, Linguistic and Cultural Diversity and Female Labor Force Participation [PDF]
. There are numerous macro and micro level determinants of female labor force participation (FLFP) counted in the literature. Besides the other explanatory factors of FLFP, diversification in religion, ethnicity, language and culture in a society may ...
KOYUNCU, Cuneyt, ÖZEN, Eda
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MULTILINGUALISM AND THE IDEAL OF UNITY IN DIVERSITY IN THE EUROPEAN UNION. KEY CONCEPTS AND CONTEXT
In a world challenged by cultural diversity, this article aims to look at the great diversity of languages and cultures that coexist within the European Union.
Roxana-Maria NISTOR-GÂZ +1 more
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Linguistic Diversity and Redistribution [PDF]
This paper investigates the effect of linguistic diversity on redistribution in a broad cross-section of countries. We use the notion of "linguistic distances" and show that the commonly used fractionalization index, which ignores linguistic distances ...
Ignacio Ortuno-Ortin +2 more
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Primo Levi Embraces Europe: A Precursor to Amin Maalouf’s 2008 European Language Treaty [PDF]
In the words of Zygmunt Bauman, ‘Europe is not something you discover; Europe is a mission’ (Bauman, 2013). The writing of the Italian Holocaust survivor, Primo Levi, plays an important role in this ‘mission’, by promoting a European sense of belonging ...
Collings, R
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Taking advantage of linguistic and cultural diversity through peer tutoring [PDF]
Esta experiencia muestra cómo se aprovecha la diversidad lingüística y cultural de los alumnos que se forman como maestros de lenguas para favorecer su aprendizaje del español e inglés a través de la tutoría entre colegas.
Huerta Cordova, Vilma +3 more
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Ensuring Linguistic Sustainability in Bangladesh: Challenges and Approaches [PDF]
This study investigates the obstacles to language sustainability in Bangladesh, which boasts a wealth of linguistic diversity, and proposes a comprehensive plan to support this variety.
Abdul AWAL
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The role of intercultural communicative competence in the development of World Englishes and Lingua Francas [PDF]
There is a tendency to think of World Englishes in the noun form; as products rather than as processes (implying that one receives both ready-made, controlling the development of neither).Conceptualising World Englishes as processes in which one can ...
Houghton, Stephanie
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The Role of Languages and Cultures in the Integration Process of Migrant and Local Communities
There is no denying that fact that migration is a sensitive economic, political and social issue, which European institutions together with researchers and policy makers have been working on trying to create the cohesion between migrant and host ...
Pundziuvienė Daiva +3 more
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