Immigration and bureaucratic control : language practices in public administration /
Codó, Eva, 1971-
Immigration and bureaucratic control : language practices in public administration / by Eva Codó. - Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©2008. - 1 online resource (xvii, 254 pages) : illustrations, map - Language, power, and social process, 20 1861-4175 ; . - Language, power, and social process ; 20. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Frontmatter; Contents; Chapter 1 Immigration, bureaucracy and language; Chapter 2 Service activities and bureaucratic procedure; Chapter 3 An illusion of information; Chapter 4 Strategies of information management; Chapter 5 The scrutinisation of behaviour; Chapter 6 Language choice and multilingual practice; Backmatter.
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 c.
In English.
9783110199086 (electronic bk.) 3110199084 (electronic bk.) (pbk. ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper)
10.1515/9783110199086 doi
Communication in public administration--Spain.
Immigrants--Language.--Spain
Multilingualism--Spain.
Sociolinguistics--Spain.
Multilinguisme--Espagne.
Sociolinguistique--Espagne.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Linguistics--Sociolinguistics.
Communication in public administration.
Emigration and immigration.
Immigrants--Language.
Multilingualism.
Sociolinguistics.
Spain--Emigration and immigration.
Espagne--Émigration et immigration.
Spain.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
P40.45.S7 / C63 2008eb
306.440946
Immigration and bureaucratic control : language practices in public administration / by Eva Codó. - Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©2008. - 1 online resource (xvii, 254 pages) : illustrations, map - Language, power, and social process, 20 1861-4175 ; . - Language, power, and social process ; 20. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Frontmatter; Contents; Chapter 1 Immigration, bureaucracy and language; Chapter 2 Service activities and bureaucratic procedure; Chapter 3 An illusion of information; Chapter 4 Strategies of information management; Chapter 5 The scrutinisation of behaviour; Chapter 6 Language choice and multilingual practice; Backmatter.
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 c.
In English.
9783110199086 (electronic bk.) 3110199084 (electronic bk.) (pbk. ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper)
10.1515/9783110199086 doi
Communication in public administration--Spain.
Immigrants--Language.--Spain
Multilingualism--Spain.
Sociolinguistics--Spain.
Multilinguisme--Espagne.
Sociolinguistique--Espagne.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Linguistics--Sociolinguistics.
Communication in public administration.
Emigration and immigration.
Immigrants--Language.
Multilingualism.
Sociolinguistics.
Spain--Emigration and immigration.
Espagne--Émigration et immigration.
Spain.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
P40.45.S7 / C63 2008eb
306.440946