Abstract:
The present thesis is an investigation about the status of English within the large-scale
business settings in the Algerian economic context, particularly multinational
companies. Little research has targeted English in multinationals, and none has
addressed the issue of English status amid large-scale globalized business enterprises
in Algeria. One of the fundamental presumptions directing this research is the axiomatic
acknowledgement of English spread worldwide, and the roles it plays as a global
linguistic phenomenon for communication even among non-native speakers. At
industry level, English is perceived to be a Business English as Lingua Franca (BELF)
