Leveraging Relations in Diaspora - Occupational Recommendations Among Latin Americans in London

This Element expands the horizon of sociopragmatic research by offering a first inquiry into the sociocultural norms that underlie the establishment and maintenance of interpersonal relations in a diasporic context. Based on accounts of the practices that Spanish-speaking Latin Americans engage in pursuit of employment, primarily gathered in life-story interviews, it captures the social reality of members of this social group as they build interpersonal relations and establish new contractual obligations with each other away from home. It examines occupational recommendations as a diasporic relational practice whereby the relationship between the recommender and the recommendee becomes part of the value being exchanged and the moral order on which the practice is established and maintained through an interlocked system of favours. The Element offers new social pragmatics insights beyond the dyad in a contemporary globalised context characterised by social inequality.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Towards a pragmatics of diasporic relationships; 3. Background and methods; 4. Analysis: towards an understanding of occupational recommendations; 5. Conclusion; References; Appendix transcription conventions.

Summary

This Element expands the horizon of sociopragmatic research inquiry into the sociocultural norms that underlie the establishment and maintenance of interpersonal relations in a diasporic context. It offers new insights beyond the dyad in a globalised context of social inequality.

Foreword

The Element readjusts the lens of socio-pragmatics beyond the interpersonal dyad and places relationships at the centre stage of pragmatics.

Product details

• Authors: Rosina Márquez Reiter, Rosina Marquez (The Open University Reiter
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.02.2024
• EAN: 9781009206624
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0920662-4
• No. of pages: 90
• Series: Elements in Pragmatics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; London, Greater London, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Sociolinguistics, Migration, immigration & emigration, Pragmatism, Migration, immigration and emigration, Social and cultural anthropology, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc