Roberts, Celia (Professor of Applied Linguistics),

Linguistic penalties and the job interview / Celia Roberts. - 290 pages: illustrations ; 23 cm. - Studies in communication in organisations and professions . - Studies in communication in organisations and professions. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

"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"--

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Employment interviewing.
Interpersonal communication.
Language and languages--Variation.

HF5549.5.I6 / R58 2021

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