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Two Languages at Work : Bilingual Life on the Production Floor /

Goldstein, Tara

Two Languages at Work : Bilingual Life on the Production Floor / Tara Goldstein. - Reprint 2011 - 1 online resource (276 p.) - Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] , 74 1861-0676 ; .

I-VI -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Tables and figures -- Introduction: Teaching and researching in the multicultural/multilingual workplace -- Chapter 1. Survival, participation, and access in a multicultural/multilingual setting -- Chapter 2. Language choice, social identity, and authority in the multicultural/multilingual workplace -- Chapter 3. Ethnography in the multicultural/multilingual workplace -- Chapter 4. The Portuguese community of Toronto -- Chapter 5. Working at Stone Specialities -- Chapter 6. Bilingual life and language choice on the production floor -- Chapter 7. Ways of communicating and experience at work -- Chapter 8. Language choice, linguistic authority and social difference on the production floor -- Chapter 9. Opportunity and empowerment in the multicultural/multilingual workplace -- Chapter 10. Language, consent and relations of power -- Notes -- References -- Appendix A: List of major occupational groups in 1986 census -- Appendix B: Interview questions for managers, assistant managers and forepersons -- Appendix C: Interview questions for the chairman of Stone Specialities -- Appendix D: Language choice conventions -- Appendix E: Language choice profile -- Appendix F: Interview questions for workers -- Index

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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

9783110150582 9783110815221

10.1515/9783110815221 doi


Communication in management--Ontario.
Diversity in the workplace--Ontario.
Language and languages--Economic aspects--Ontario.
Multiculturalism--Ontario.
Arbeitsplatz.
Ontario.
Portugiesischer Arbeitnehmer.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.

HF5549.5.M5.G648 1997eb

331.5