Two Languages at Work : Bilingual Life on the Production Floor /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Goldstein, Tara (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: De Gruyter
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2011]
Edition:Reprint 2011
Series:Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] , 74
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • I-VI
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Tables and figures
  • Introduction: Teaching and researching in the multicultural/multilingual workplace
  • Chapter 1. Survival, participation, and access in a multicultural/multilingual setting
  • Chapter 2. Language choice, social identity, and authority in the multicultural/multilingual workplace
  • Chapter 3. Ethnography in the multicultural/multilingual workplace
  • Chapter 4. The Portuguese community of Toronto
  • Chapter 5. Working at Stone Specialities
  • Chapter 6. Bilingual life and language choice on the production floor
  • Chapter 7. Ways of communicating and experience at work
  • Chapter 8. Language choice, linguistic authority and social difference on the production floor
  • Chapter 9. Opportunity and empowerment in the multicultural/multilingual workplace
  • Chapter 10. Language, consent and relations of power
  • Notes
  • References
  • Appendix A: List of major occupational groups in 1986 census
  • Appendix B: Interview questions for managers, assistant managers and forepersons
  • Appendix C: Interview questions for the chairman of Stone Specialities
  • Appendix D: Language choice conventions
  • Appendix E: Language choice profile
  • Appendix F: Interview questions for workers
  • Index