TITLE:
Language Use and Management in Mining Companies in the DRC
AUTHORS:
Mambo Kalume, Katsuva Ngoloma, Mulamba Nshindi, Phillipe Hambye, Kyungu Kibamba, Mukunda Mutombo
KEYWORDS:
Language Use and Management, Mining Companies, Multinational Companies, DRC
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Access Library Journal,
Vol.5 No.8,
August
23,
2018
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.