Overview

Linguistic Penalties and the Job Interview looks at a relatively untapped area of language and social life: the role of language and interaction in constructing the job interview and how this role produces disadvantage in the linguistically diverse communities of the western world. It relates the specific activity of the job interview to the wider field of institutional 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 perspectives: interviews as extreme examples of social evaluation, showing how inferential processes of moment to moment talk in interaction can lead to the 'small tragedies' of everyday life; and interviews as a window into social inequality more generally. It illustrates interactional sociolinguistic and linguistic ethnography methodology through the job interview and workplace data and argues for the importance of practical relevance - applying sociolinguistic analysis to educational interventions.

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Author:   Celia Roberts
Publisher:   Equinox Publishing Ltd
Imprint:   Equinox Publishing Ltd
Weight:   0.290kg
ISBN:  

9781845537685

ISBN 10:   1845537688
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   10 June 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock  
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Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1 Introduction CHAPTER 2 Performing the Institutional Self CHAPTER 3 Researching Ethnic and Linguistic Penalties CHAPTER 4 Competency Models and Covert Linguistic Penalties CHAPTER 5 Institutional, Professional and Personal Discourses CHAPTER 6 Narrating the Self Through Professional Discourse CHAPTER 7 The Interview as a Joint Production CHAPTER 8 Decision Making: Institutional Evaluation, Local Practices and Writing the Interview CHAPTER 9 Migrant Candidates and the Linguistic Penalty CHAPTER 10 Knowledge and Experience Brought into the Interview CHAPTER 11 Linguistic Footprints

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Celia Roberts is Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics at King's College, London.

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