Schluter Anne Ambler
Schluter Anne Ambler - Domestic Workers Talk Language Use And Social Practices In A Multilingual Workplace - Paperback
Schluter Anne Ambler - Domestic Workers Talk Language Use And Social Practices In A Multilingual Workplace - Paperback
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Description: 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 L 1 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.
Title: Domestic Workers Talk Language Use And Social Practices In A Multilingual Workplace
Author(s): Schluter Anne Ambler
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Barcode: 9781800416741
Pages: 168 Pages
Publication Date: 1/16/2024
Series: Language at Work
Category: Social, Group Or Collective Psychology
Description: 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 L 1 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.
Title: Domestic Workers Talk Language Use And Social Practices In A Multilingual Workplace
Author(s): Schluter Anne Ambler
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Barcode: 9781800416741
Pages: 168 Pages
Publication Date: 1/16/2024
Series: Language at Work
Category: Social, Group Or Collective Psychology
