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Domestic Workers Talk : Language Use and Social Practices in a Multilingual Workplace / Kellie Gonçalves, Anne Ambler Schluter.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Language at Work ; 9Publisher: Bristol ; Blue Ridge Summit : Multilingual Matters, [2024]Copyright date: 2024Description: 1 online resource (168 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781800416758
  • 9781800416765
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Advancing Methodology: Using a Mixed Methodological Approach within a Multilingual Cleaning Company -- 3 Magda: The Personal and Professional Trajectory of Shine’s Owner -- 4 The Interplay between Identity, Ideology and Capital that Strengthens Cultural Attachments: The Pull of Portuguese and the Portuguese- Centric Ironbound Community for Shine’s Hispanophone Employees -- 5 Multicompetence as Essential and English- Language Proficiency as Secondary: Examining the Shape of Customer– Employee Interactions between Speakers who do not Share a Common Language -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Index
Summary: 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.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Advancing Methodology: Using a Mixed Methodological Approach within a Multilingual Cleaning Company -- 3 Magda: The Personal and Professional Trajectory of Shine’s Owner -- 4 The Interplay between Identity, Ideology and Capital that Strengthens Cultural Attachments: The Pull of Portuguese and the Portuguese- Centric Ironbound Community for Shine’s Hispanophone Employees -- 5 Multicompetence as Essential and English- Language Proficiency as Secondary: Examining the Shape of Customer– Employee Interactions between Speakers who do not Share a Common Language -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Index

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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