This collection brings together global perspectives which
critically examine the ways in which language as a resource is used
and managed in myriad ways in various blue-collar workplace
settings in today's globalized economy. In focusing on blue-collar
work environments, the book sheds further light on the informal
processes through which top down language policies take place in
different multilingual settings and the resultant asymmetrical
power relations which emerge among employees and employers in such
settings. Taking into account the latest debates on
poststructuralist theories of language, the volume also extends its
conceptualization of language to demonstrate the ways in which it
extends to a wider range of multilingual and multimodal resources
and communicative practices, all of which combine in unique and
different ways toward constructing meaning in the workplace. The
volume's unique focus on such workplaces also showcases domains of
work which have generally until now been less visible within
existing research on language in the workplace and the subsequent
methodological challenges that arise from studying them.
Integrating a range of theoretical and methodological approaches,
along with empirical data from a diverse range of blue-collar
workplaces, this book will be of particular interest to students
and researchers in critical sociolinguistics, applied linguistics,
sociology, and linguistic anthropology.
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