Interactional Categorization and Gatekeeping - Institutional Encounters with Otherness

This book is about categorization processes in native/non-native workplace interaction, in the context of internship interviews between Danish employers and second language speakers who were born abroad. This book, which is one of the 1st on gatekeeping, seeks to address processes of power and ideology from a conversation analytical perspective.

About the author

Louise Tranekjær is Associate Professor in the Department of Culture and Identity at Roskilde University, Denmark. Her research interests include institutional interaction, membership categorization analysis, identity, processes of inclusion and exclusion and discourse analysis.

Product details

• Authors: Louise Tranekjær, Louise Tranekjr, Louise Trankjaer
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.05.2015
• EAN: 9781783093670
• ISBN: 978-1-78309-367-0
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 216 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 506 g
• Series: Language, Mobility and Institutions; Language, Mobility and Institutions; Language, Mobility and Institu
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous