Two Languages at Work: Bilingual Life on the Production Floor

Tara Goldstein

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Two Languages at Work

Bilingual Life on the Production Floor

Tara Goldstein

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1997

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Volume 74 | Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL]

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Linguistics and Semiotics Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines First Language Acquisition
Linguistics and Semiotics Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines Neurolinguistics
Linguistics and Semiotics Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines Sociolinguistics

I-VI Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	I
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	VII
Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	IX
Tables and figures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	XVI
Introduction: Teaching and researching in the multicultural/multilingual workplace Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Chapter 1. Survival, participation, and access in a multicultural/multilingual setting Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	11
Chapter 2. Language choice, social identity, and authority in the multicultural/multilingual workplace Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	39
Chapter 3. Ethnography in the multicultural/multilingual workplace Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	69
Chapter 4. The Portuguese community of Toronto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	87
Chapter 5. Working at Stone Specialities Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	109
Chapter 6. Bilingual life and language choice on the production floor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	143
Chapter 7. Ways of communicating and experience at work Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	177
Chapter 8. Language choice, linguistic authority and social difference on the production floor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	201
Chapter 9. Opportunity and empowerment in the multicultural/multilingual workplace Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	219
Chapter 10. Language, consent and relations of power Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	243
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	251
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	255
Appendix A: List of major occupational groups in 1986 census Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	267
Appendix B: Interview questions for managers, assistant managers and forepersons Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	270
Appendix C: Interview questions for the chairman of Stone Specialities Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	271
Appendix D: Language choice conventions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	272
Appendix E: Language choice profile Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	273
Appendix F: Interview questions for workers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	274
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	277

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August 25, 2011

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9783110815221

Hardcover published on:

December 11, 1996

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110150582

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Reprint 2011

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15

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276

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110815221

eBook ISBN: 9783110815221

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110150582

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Portugiesischer Arbeitnehmer; Ontario; Arbeitsplatz

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