ISBN:
9783110199086
,
3110199084
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xvii, 254 p.)
,
ill., map.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Language, power, and social process 1861-4175 20
Series Statement:
Language, power, and social process 20
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Codó, Eva, 1971- Immigration and bureaucratic control
DDC:
306.440946
Keywords:
Communication in public administration Spain
;
Immigrants Language
;
Spain
;
Multilingualism Spain
;
Sociolinguistics Spain
;
Communication in public administration
;
Immigrants Language
;
Multilingualism
;
Sociolinguistics
;
Communication in public administration
;
Emigration and immigration
;
Immigrants ; Language
;
Multilingualism
;
Sociolinguistics
;
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES ; Linguistics ; Sociolinguistics
;
Spain Emigration and immigration
;
Spain
;
Spain Emigration and immigration
;
Spain
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
This original study looks at language practices in a government agency responsible for granting or denying legal status to transnational migrants in Spain. Drawing on a unique corpus of naturally-occurring verbal interactions between state officials and migrant petitioners as well as ethnographic materials and interviews, it provides a fascinating insight into the relationship between language, social heterogeneity, and practices of exclusion. The book investigates how a national agency with homogenizing views of citizenship copes with the fundamental contradiction resulting from the state's c
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