Transnational Technical Communication: English as a Business Lingua Franca in Engineering Workplaces

IF 1.4 Q2 COMMUNICATION

Business and Professional Communication Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-02-21 DOI:10.1177/23294906231154860

A. Hodges, Leslie Seawright

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Abstract

Recent scholarship argues for increased attention to students’ linguistic diversity and intercultural communication competence. Our study examined the experiences of 10 working engineers who had graduated from an English-medium international branch campus in the Arabian Gulf. An analysis of their interviews reveals the complex role of English as a business lingua franca (BELF) in workplace communication. Interviewees’ reflections about their university experience indicate that they had not previously understood the full rhetorical and communicative nature of BELF. We provide implications for instructors who wish to provide methods that center intercultural professional communication and decenter English as a standardized, static language.

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跨国技术交流:英语作为工程工作场所的商业通用语

最近的学术研究主张增加对学生语言多样性和跨文化交际能力的关注。我们的研究调查了10名在职工程师的经历，他们毕业于阿拉伯海湾的一所英语授课的国际分校。对他们访谈的分析揭示了英语作为商务通用语(BELF)在工作场所沟通中的复杂作用。受访者对其大学经历的反思表明，他们以前并不了解BELF的全部修辞和交际性质。我们为那些希望提供以跨文化专业交流为中心、以英语为标准化、静态语言为中心的方法的教师提供了启示。

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Business and Professional Communication Quarterly COMMUNICATION-

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期刊介绍： Business and Professional Communication Quarterly is the only refereed journal devoted to research that advances the teaching of communication in the workplace. The journal aims to present the many interdisciplinary, international, and organizational perspectives that characterize the field and specifically to publish research that advances knowledge about business and professional communication pedagogy and praxis in both academic and workplace settings, including technical and scientific communication, rhetoric, program design and assessment, the impact of technology, sustainability, global and multicultural issues, nonprofit communication, and best practices. As an interdisciplinary journal, BPCQ welcomes manuscripts that address a variety of theoretical, applied, and practical approaches and topics in the teaching and praxis of business, corporate, organizational, professional, or technical communication, including qualitative and quantitative research on classroom teaching or assessment, case studies of specific classroom techniques, reports on strategies for program development, innovative assignments or methodologies, and reviews of scholarship relevant to business and professional communication pedagogy. BPCQ especially welcomes manuscripts that address the principles of SoTL (scholarship of teaching and learning). BPCQ also publishes articles on a particular theme, for which a call may be announced on the ABC website: http://www.businesscommunication.org. Information on submitting book reviews can be found at http://www.montclair.edu/cwe/bcq