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Linguis'c Penal'es and the Job Interview

ISBN: 9781845537692 Author(s): Celia Roberts Price: £26,95 Pub. date: March-21

Linguis)c Penal)es and the Job Interview looks at a rela)vely untapped area of language and social life: the role of language and interac)on in construc)ng the job interview and how this role produces disadvantage in the linguis)cally diverse communi)es of the western world. It relates the specific ac)vity of the job interview to the wider field of ins)tu)onal discourse and discusses relevant social theories in the light of the data.The volume considers job interviews as key ‘gatekeeping’ encounters within the workplace from two main perspec)ves: interviews as extreme examples of social evalua)on, showing how inferen)al processes of moment to moment talk in interac)on can lead to the ‘small tragedies’ of everyday life; and interviews as a window into social inequality more generally. It illustrates interac)onal sociolinguis)c and linguis)c ethnography methodology through the job interview and workplace data and argues for the importance of prac)cal relevance – applying sociolinguis)c analysis to educa)onal interven)ons. Celia Roberts is Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguis)cs at King's College, London.

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