Danish at work

Danish at work is a shared title for two PhD projects at the centre.

In May 2013, Marta Kirilova defended her PhD thesis ”All dressed up and nowhere to go” on job interviews with candidates from minority backgrounds. Marta has studied language, culture and ideology in immigrants' job interviews. Among other things, the project considers: 

• How is understanding and misunderstanding established in the conversation between employer and job candidate?
• Do the candidates' linguistic and cultural skills affect the outcome of the job interview, and if yes, how?
• What is fluency in Danish as a second language?
• Which stereotypes arise when minority members and majority members speak together?

Merike Jürna investigates linguistic practices at the university as a multilingual workplace. Merike studies the need to master Danish among foreign academic employees at the University of Copenhagen. Among other things, she seeks to find out which requirements must be made of the Danish language instruction to be offered to the foreign employees. Read more about the project here. 
Merike Jürna is attached to the University of Tartu, Estonia.