Domestic workers talk: language use and social practices in a multilingual workplace
Auteur :
Gonçalves, Kellie / Schluter, Anne Ambler
Éditeur :
Multilingual Matters
ISBN :
9781800416758
Date de publication :
16 janv. 2024
Dimensions :
23,4 x 15,6 x 1,3 cm
Poids :
410 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Set in a multilingual cleaning company that serves Anglophone customers in the upper-(middle) class suburbs of New York City, this book presents an ethnographic study into power, language policy and communication from the perspectives of the Brazilian–American employer as well as the company’s Hispanophone and Lusophone employees.