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This volume expands the definitions of language and work in researching their mutual influences. It considers language as a working tool, a vector of occupational identity, and so on, and work as the needed daily interrelation tasks, communication constraints and so on. The volume covers various national contexts: India, France, Argentina, Morocco, Portugal, Palestine, Brazil, Singapore, and Canada. The diversity of countries and linguistic spaces presented here enriches the perspectives in terms of transferring the insights from one situation to another. The specific cases discuss, among others, how an occupation may be structured by language use; how language embeds occupations within certain social contexts; challenges of teaching in multilingual classrooms; and how language affects therapeutic discourse and communication between patients and doctors. The chapters provide detailed contexts and backgrounds so that readers can enjoy entering into each context and seeing similarities and differences with their own research field to incorporate the findings into their own research. This volume is intended for sociologists interested in professionalisation, industrial and occupational sociology, sociology of work, public health, and management research.
List of contents
Introduction: An emerging research field at the intersection of the sociology of work and sociology of language.- International Managerial Language as Professional Identity Work: A study of Indian Industrial Managers.- Between Authentication and Pedagogy: Language, Central Part of Notarial Work.- Language as a Mean of Legitimation and Recognition of Popular Economy Workers in Argentina 50.- Exploring the NEET "Not in Employment, Education, or Training" Population in the French West Indies: A Socio-Linguistic Analysis of a Statistical Category.- How Work Shapes Language and Language Shapes Work: Comparison Between four Professions in Morocco and France.- Medical Communication with Elderly Portuguese Patients About Health Risks and Deprescription: Words that Bring Memories and Paradoxes.- Conversation Analysis and the Investigation of Talk-in-Interaction in Psychotherapeutic Working Scenarios.- The language of mathematics and the challenge it poses to mathematics teachers in multilingual Singapore.- Language Influence on Professional Mobility along the Kenya-Uganda Highway.- Language Influence on Professional Mobility along the Kenya-Uganda Highway.- Conclusion.
About the author
Stéphanie Cassilde is both a developing economist and a sociologist. She focuses on the interaction between language and space. She is interested in the iterations of preferences and behaviors of individuals in social spaces toward their identities, and social ties (cohesion/conflict). As independent researcher, Stéphanie joined the Ronin Institute for Independent Scholarship in August 2019.
Adeline Gilson (PhD in Sociology in Aix-Marseille University, France) is a Senior Lecturer of Management Science in the University of Toulon (France) and a researcher at CERGAM (Aix-Marseille University Research Centre in Management). Being both a sociologist of work and a management researcher, she focuses on socialisation and identities at work, health at work, professional careers and Human Resources Management.
