Behaving toward language in the Mormon mission: the Czech case

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F15%3A10314837" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/15:10314837 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ijsl-2014-0041" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ijsl-2014-0041</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ijsl-2014-0041" target="_blank" >10.1515/ijsl-2014-0041</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Behaving toward language in the Mormon mission: the Czech case
Original language description
This article applies Language Management Theory/Framework to the behavior toward language observed in the missionary program of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (the Mormons) in the Czech Republic. It analyzes data directly from the mission site, focusing on specifically the combination of the highly specific character of the missionaries' acquisition of Czech and their role as native speakers of English. It explores not only the acquisition, but also the use of the mission language, highlighting the relationship between macro structures of the church's language policy, the character of the missionaries' work in general, and language use in individual interactions. The article concludes by arguing that not only the knowledge of the locallanguage, but also the acquired orientation to the local sociolinguistic situation and communicative practices are what enable the missionaries to do their work.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
AI - Linguistics
OECD FORD branch
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2015
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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