UID:
almahu_9949481444202882
Format:
1 online resource (254 p.)
ISBN:
9783110199086
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9783110238570
Series Statement:
Language, Power and Social Process [LPSP] , 20
Content:
This original study looks at language practices in a government agency responsible for granting or denying legal status to transnational migrants in Spain. Drawing on a unique corpus of naturally-occurring verbal interactions between state officials and migrant petitioners as well as ethnographic materials and interviews, it provides a fascinating insight into the relationship between language, social heterogeneity, and practices of exclusion. The book investigates how a national agency with homogenizing views of citizenship copes with the fundamental contradiction resulting from the state's commitment to the values of pluralism, justice, and equality, and its function as the regulator of access to socioeconomic resources. By focusing on information provision, the book explores how much room there is for individual agency in institutional contexts; and shows that what happens in front-line talk has very little to do with allowing immigrants access to crucial information but rather revolves around the regimentation of language and behavior, and the enactment of social control. This publication will be welcomed by students and researchers in the fields of sociolinguistics, language and immigration, institutional talk, and multilingualism.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Part I: Situating the study --
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Chapter 1 Immigration, bureaucracy and --
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language --
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Chapter 2 Service activities and bureaucratic --
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procedure --
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Part II: Information as valuable capital --
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Chapter 3 An illusion of information --
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Chapter 4 Strategies of information --
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management --
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Part III: Regimented spaces --
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Chapter 5 The scrutinisation of behaviour --
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Chapter 6 Language choice and multilingual --
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practice --
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Backmatter
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Issued also in print.
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English.
In:
DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1, De Gruyter, 9783110238570
In:
DGBA Backlist Linguistics and Semiotics 2000-2014 (EN), De Gruyter, 9783110238457
In:
DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 2000 - 2014, De Gruyter, 9783110636970
In:
De Gruyter Mouton Backlist 2000-2015, De Gruyter, 9783110742961
In:
E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2008, De Gruyter, 9783110212129
In:
E-BOOK PACKAGE ENGLISH LANGUAGES TITLES 2008, De Gruyter, 9783110212136
In:
E-BOOK PAKET LINGUISTIK UND LITERATURWISSENSCHAFT 2008, De Gruyter, 9783110209457
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110195897
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110199086
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110199086
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110199086
