Domestic Workers Talk: Language Use and Social Practices in a Multilingual Workplace by Gonçalves, Kellie

Domestic Workers Talk: Language Use and Social Practices in a Multilingual Workplace (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781800416758)

Vendor: Kellie Gon軋lves
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Format: Hardcover
$129.95
$129.95
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Domestic Workers Talk: Language Use and Social Practices in a Multilingual Workplace by Gonçalves, Kellie

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

$129.95
Domestic Workers Talk: Language Use and Social Practices in a Multilingual Workplace by Gonçalves, Kellie

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

$129.95
Format: Hardcover
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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.



Author: Kellie Gon軋lves, Anne Ambler Schluter
ISBN-10: 180041675X
ISBN-13: 9781800416758
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
Language: English
Published: 01/16/2024
Pages: 168
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.44d
By Kellie Gon軋lves
By Kellie Gon軋lves
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Kellie Gon軋lves 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).

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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