How can corporate language contribute to a company’s brand? Why do companies often have at least two different voices that they use to speak to the same customers? And how can organisations deal with the issue of gender-sensitive writing in German, maintaining the balance between inclusion, readability and aesthetics?
In this episode I talk to Martin Dunkl, a public relations consultant who specialises in corporate identity. We talk about ways a company’s language can be used to build its brand and identity, including how a text can be made more understandable to readers, the effect of using dialect in corporate language, and how the use of “du” or “Sie” can help to establish a brand.
Guest: Martin Dunkl - Website: https://dunkl.com/ - Read more about Corporate Code (including the list of the Corporate Code markers): http://www.dunkl.com/corporate-language.htm - Book: "Corporate Code - Wege zu einer klaren und unverwechselbaren Unternehmenssprache" - available at: https://www.amazon.de/Corporate-Code-klaren-unverwechselbaren-Unternehmenssprache/dp/3658053755 - Book: "Recht verständlich formuliert: Klartext statt Amtsdeutsch - Rechtstexte zielgruppengerecht schreiben für Mitarbeiter, Kunden, Bürger" - available at: https://www.amazon.de/Recht-verst%C3%A4ndlich-formuliert-Amtsdeutsch-zielgruppengerecht/dp/3658335890
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