Kellie Gonçalves, Anne Ambler Schluter

Gebundenes Buch

Domestic Workers Talk

Language Use and Social Practices in a Multilingual Workplace

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Kellie Gonçalves 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).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Multilingual Matters
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 417g
• ISBN-13: 9781800416758
• ISBN-10: 180041675X
• Artikelnr.: 64264071