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Language, migration and in/Exclusion in the workplace / Jo Angouri
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Angouri, Jo
- Series:
- Language at Work Series
- Language at Work Series ; v.10
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Immigrants--Language--Case studies.
- Immigrants.
- Language in the workplace--Case studies.
- Language in the workplace.
- Communication in organizations--Case studies.
- Communication in organizations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (217 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Multilingual Matters, 2023.
- Summary:
- This book focuses on the lived experiences of migrants who (try to) access the workplace, and explores the barriers and support they encounter. The chapters look at the ways in which inclusion and exclusion from the workplace are done linguistically from historical, discourse analytical, narrative and language assessment perspectives.
- Contents:
- Migration and language at work : current trends and future opportunities for multidisciplinary research / Jo Angouri, Julie Kerekes & Minna Suni
- Contextualising diversity, work and mobility across time : cases from Norway's 'high north' / Florian Hiss
- 'Doctor Johnny' : the discursive construction of the medical doctor as an immigrant / Nóra Schleicher
- Multilingual professionals, monolingual contexts and multicultural mindsets : towards an intercultural mindset / Fiona O'Neill
- 'Getting the job done' : conventional expressions as shibboleths in multilingual job interviews / Marta Kirilova
- Assessing and analysing Health Care Finnish : test performance and lived experiences / Marja Seilonen & Minna Suni
- The role of soft skills in vocational ESL : their potential to (dis)empower migrant employment seekers / Julie Kerekes & Jeanne Sinclair
- Impression management games : language and mobility among Southern European migrants in a London call center / Johanna Tovar
- Understanding the immigrant actor through a multilingual lens / Art Babayants
- '[They] thought I didn't know how to be a chef because I didn't speak Finnish' : gatekeeping and professional role enactment in a multilingual kitchen context / Kristina Humonen & Jo Angouri.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781800416963
- 1800416962
- 9781800416956
- 1800416954
- OCLC:
- 1390559090
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