This introductory article explains the need for interactional analyses of workplace communication, which is increasingly multilingual and multimodal in expansive spatiotemporal contexts and layered frames. It provides an overview of how neoliberal economic conditions have impacted workplace communication, generating new task structures and communicative practices. Arguing that there is a need to situate localized workplace interactions in changing frames and task structures, the article demonstrates how interactional sociolinguistics might serve this purpose. It goes on to review theoretical developments on the materiality of language to revisit traditional concerns about social structure and communicative interactions, develop a more expansive orientation to repertoires, and demonstrate how interactional analysis might adopt suitable units and categories of analysis. It then describes how this framework explains the different outcomes for language diversity in the contributing articles—ranging from inequality to solidarity, marginalization to inclusivity, and misunderstandings to intelligibility—in workplace interactions.

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跨国工作，跨语言实践和互动社会语言学

这篇介绍性文章解释了对工作场所沟通的交互分析的需求，在广阔的时空环境和分层框架中，这种交互分析越来越多。它概述了新自由主义经济状况如何影响工作场所的交流，产生了新的任务结构和交流实践。认为有必要在变化的框架和任务结构中定位本地化的工作场所交互，本文证明了交互社会语言学如何才能达到这个目的。它继续回顾了关于语言重要性的理论发展，以重新审视对社会结构和交往互动的传统关注，为节目单制定了更为广阔的定位，并演示交互分析如何采用适当的分析单位和类别。然后，在工作场所的互动中，描述了该框架如何解释撰写文章中语言多样性的不同结果-从不平等到团结，边缘化到包容性以及对理解的误解。