Immigration and Bureaucratic Control by Eva Cod
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.-
Impoliteness in Language
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Diagnosis as Cultural Practice
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Race and the Rise of Standard American
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Power and Politeness in Action
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Troubled Talk
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Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, and Gender
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Read the Cultural Other
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Metalanguage
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Language Ideological Debates
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Words, Worlds, and Material Girls
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Linguistic Authority, Language Ideology, and Metaphor
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Hebrew and Zionism
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Gender, Heteroglossia and Power
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At War with Words
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Style and Social Identities
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Diglossia and Power
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Language, Culture and the Dynamics of Age
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Ideologies across Nations
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The Local Construction of a Global Language
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The Native Speaker Concept
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Constructing Inequality in Multilingual Classrooms
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Courtroom Talk and Neocolonial Control
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Narrative as Social Practice
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Language, Politics, and Social Interaction in an Inuit Community
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Ideologies in Action
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Coerced Confessions
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Talk, Work and Institutional Order
Eva Codó, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9783110195897 |
| ISBN 10 | 3110195895 |
| Title | Immigration and Bureaucratic Control |
| Author | Eva Cod |
| Series | Language Power And Social Process [Lpsp] |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | De Gruyter |
| Year published | 2008-03-18 |
| Number of pages | 271 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |