Take the case of a multilingual system, where a knowledge-based approach has to involve experts from all the languages involved.
Arriving, as Jundt does, from multilingual Switzerland, where 20th century modernism was born as dada in a Zurich cafe, this makes perfect sense.
On its own with few natural resources, the port at the tip of the Malay Peninsula evolved from a British naval base into a tiny nation underpinned by a multilingual ethos, where an ethnic Chinese majority and sizable Indian and Malay populations coexist.
It was a "multilingual" journal where papers in English, French and German were published.
It will have to manage a multicultural, multilingual workforce an area where Japanese firms often trip up.
This phenomenon, known as code switching, is a characteristic of the multilingual South African context, where vocabularies of different languages influence one another (Moodley, 2007; Ncoko et al., 2000).
In a multilingual country such as Pakistan where at least eight major languages compete for supremacy, English occupies a special position by virtue of its "neutrality".
In multilingual areas such as Southern California where the use of a minority language is politically charged, effective encoding of symbolic language by the service provider is crucial for the success of a service encounter.
Developing multilingual leaders, teams, and strategies is where the rubber hits the road.
Where necessary, a trained, multilingual translator translated the transcriptions into English and the researchers analysed those transcriptions to identify main patterns.
