Domestic Workers Talk: Language Use and Social Practices in a Multilingual Workplace - Couverture souple

Gonçalves, Kellie; Schluter, Anne Ambler

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1800416741 ISBN 13 : 9781800416741

Editeur : Multilingual Matters, 2024

Synopsis

Set in a multilingual cleaning company that serves Anglophone customers in the upper-(middle) class suburbs of New York City, this book presents an ethnographic study into power, language policy and communication from the perspectives of the Brazilian–American employer as well as the company’s Hispanophone and Lusophone employees. Power asymmetries in internal communication demonstrate the employer’s legitimated domination over her employees and her L1 Portuguese as a form of linguistic capital. Employees’ resourcefulness and multicompetence – rather than quantifiable levels of English-language proficiency – determine the extent to which they rely on language brokering to facilitate communication with their customers, directly impacting their agency. The book contributes to current debates on extra-linguistic modes of communication in multilingual settings and thematic analyses of care work, migration, communication and the role of English.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Kellie Gonçalves is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, University of Bern, Switzerland. She is the author of Labour Policies, Language Use and the ‘New’ Economy: The Case of Adventure Tourism (2020, Palgrave Macmillan) and co-editor of Language, Global Mobilities, Blue-Collar Workers and Blue-collar Workplaces (2021, Routledge with H. Kelly-Holmes).

<br /><br /><div class="row dragbox"> <div class="col-md-12 description-card" data-text-type-code="13" data-text-id="14575" data-territory-id=""> <div class="card card-body"> <div class="card-text"> <p class="xmsonormal">Anne Ambler Schluter is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Communication, Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her research focuses on the sociolinguistics of migration, discourse analysis, affective attachment/emotional labor, healthcare communication, and minority language and belonging.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Multilingual Matters
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1800416741
• ISBN 13: 9781800416741
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 168
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible