Ulteriori informazioni
'This is a stimulating volume in the relatively new area of workplace sociolinguistics. It gives detailed insights into the experience of being and belonging in environments of change. The crossing of physical, social and ideological barriers and its emotional toll is robustly addressed through micro-interactional analysis, while showing how institutions leak in at all points. The impressive range of workplaces speaks to complexities of transitions and, importantly, brings together the formalities of gatekeeping encounters and the coping and balancing strategies required to manage ordinary working conditions.' Celia Roberts, Kings College London Moving across linguistic, professional and national boundaries for work is now commonplace. The concept of a 'job for life' is clearly outdated. Employees regularly move between jobs, countries and even professions during their working lives. However, the complex processes involved in redefining personal, social and professional identities are rarely reflected in current workplace research. This volume brings together workplace communication scholars from a range of disciplinary areas, each examining the challenges faced when transitioning into a new workplace, team or society, as well as within different professional communities. By analysing the strategies individuals adopt to navigate boundaries (whether these arise because of differences in language, workplace or country), this book demonstrates that transitions are intricately negotiated and constructed in the situated 'here and now' of workplace interaction while simultaneously positioned in the wider socioeconomic order. Jo Angouri is Reader and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the Centre for Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick. Meredith Marra is Associate Professor in the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington. Janet Holmes is Emeritus Professor in Linguistics at Victoria University of and a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Cover image: (c) iStockphoto.com Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-0313-9 Barcode
Sommario
Chapter 1: Introduction: Negotiating boundaries at work
Jo Angouri, Meredith Marra & Janet Holmes
Part I: Transitions to a professionChapter 2: Negotiating social legitimacy in and across contexts: Apprenticeship in a 'dual' training system
Stefano A. Losa & Laurent Filliettaz
Chapter 3: Language mentoring and employment ideologies: Internationally educated professionals in search of work
Julie Kerekes
Chapter 4: 'Oh it's a DANISH boyfriend you've got'- Co-membership and cultural fluency in job interviews with minority background applicants in Denmark
Marta Kirilova
Chapter 5: Constructing a 'mission statement'- A multimodal perspective on believable identity construction in a job interview
Ewa Kusmierczyk-O'Connor
Chapter 6: Teamwork and the 'global graduate': Negotiating core skills and competencies with employers in recruitment interviews
Sophie Reissner-Roubicek
Chapter 7: 'Doing evaluation' in the modern workplace: Negotiating the identity of 'model employee' in performance appraisal interviews
Dorien Van De Mieroop & Stephanie Schnurr
Part II: Transitions within a professionChapter 8: Multilingualism and work experience in Germany: On the pragmatic notion of 'patiency'
Kristin Bührig & Jochen Rehbein
Chapter 9: Working and learning in a new niche: Ecological interpretations of work-related migration
Minna Suni
Chapter 10: 'Have you still not learnt Luxembourgish'? Negotiating language boundaries in a distribution company in Luxembourg
Anne Franziskus
Chapter 11: The 'internationalised' academic: Negotiating boundaries between the local, the regional and the 'international' at the university
Anne H. Fabricius
Chapter 12: Collaborating beyond disciplinary boundaries
Seongsook Choi
Info autore
Dr Jo Angouri is Reader and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the Centre for Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick.
Meredith Marra is Associate Professor in the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington.
Professor Janet Holmes is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington.
Riassunto
This volume brings together a range of scholars from different disciplinary areas in the field, examining the challenges of transition into a (new) workplace, team or community, as well as transitions within different professional communities.
