Linguistic penalties and the job interview / Celia Roberts.
Material type: TextSeries: Studies in communication in organisations and professionsPublisher: Bristol : Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: 290 pages: illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1845537688
- 9781845537685
- 1845537696
- 9781845537692
- 658.31124014 23
- HF5549.5.I6 R58 2021
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Book | North Campus North Campus Main Collection | 658.31124014 ROB (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A537807B |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Introduction -- 2. Performing the Institutional Self -- 3. Researching Ethnic and Linguistic Penalties -- 4. Competence Models and Covert Linguistic Penalties -- 5. Institutional, Professional and Personal Discourses -- 6. Narrating the Self Through Professional Discourse -- 7. The Interview as a Joint Production -- 8. Decision Making: Institutional Evaluation, Local Practices and Writing the Interview -- 9. Migrant Candidates and the Linguistic Penalty -- 10. Knowledge and Experience Brought into the Interview -- 11. Linguistic Footprints.
"Linguistic Penalties and the Job Interview looks at 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"-- Provided by publisher.
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