TY - CHAP U1 - Buchbeitrag A1 - Markaki, Vassiliki A1 - Merlino, Sara A1 - Mondada, Lorenza A1 - Oloff, Florence A1 - Traverso, Véronique ED - Berthoud, Anne-Claude ED - Grin, François ED - Lüdi, Georges T1 - Multilingual practices in professional settings. Keeping the delicate balance between progressivity and intersubjectivity T2 - Exploring the Dynamics of Multilingualism. The DYLAN project N2 - Drawing on naturalistic video and audio recordings of international meetings, and within the framework of conversation analysis, ethnomethodology and interactional linguistics, this chapter studies how multilingual resources are mobilized in social interactions among professionals, how available linguistic and embodied resources are identified and used by the participants, which solutions are locally elaborated by them when they are confronted with various languages spoken but not shared among them, and which definition of multilingualism they adopt for all practical purposes. Focusing on the multilingual solutions emically elaborated in international professional meetings, we show that the participants orient to a double principle: on the one hand, they orient to the progressivity of the interaction, adopting all the possible resources that enable them to go on within the current activity; on the other hand, they orient to the intersubjectivity of the interaction, treating, preventing and repairing possible troubles and problems of understanding. Specific multilingual solutions can be adopted to keep this difficult balance between progressivity and intersubjectivity; they vary according to the settings, the competences at hand, the linguistic and embodied resources locally defined by the participants as publicly available, the multilingual resources treated as totally or partially shared, as transparent or opaque, and as needing repair or not. The paper begins by sketching the analytical framework, including the methodology and the data collected; it then presents some general findings, before offering an analysis of various ways in which participants keep the balance between progressivity and intersubjectivity in different multilingual interactional contexts. T3 - Multilingualism and Diversity Management - 2 KW - Mehrsprachigkeit KW - Fortschrittlichkeit KW - Intersubjektivität KW - Konversationsanalyse KW - Ethnomethodologie KW - Interaktion KW - Zusammenkunft KW - Verstehen Y1 - 2013 UN - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-109767 SN - 2210-7010 SS - 2210-7010 SN - 978-90-272-0056-3 SB - 978-90-272-0056-3 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1075/mdm.2.01mar DO - https://doi.org/10.1075/mdm.2.01mar N1 - This is a postprint of an article that was published in the book "Exploring the Dynamics of Multilingualism. The DYLAN project". The published article (available here) is under copyright of Benjamins. The publisher should be contacted for permission to re-use or reprint the material in any form. SP - 3 EP - 32 PB - Benjamins CY - Amsterdam/Philadelphia ER -