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.
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