Interactional Categorization and Gatekeeping : : Institutional Encounters with Otherness / / Louise Tranekjær.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2015
• VerfasserIn: Tranekjær, Louise,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Language, Mobility and Institutions
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

This book is about categorization processes in native/non-native workplace interaction, within the context of internship interviews between Danish employers and second language speakers who were born abroad. In this volume, which is one of the first books on gatekeeping, Tranekjær seeks to address processes of power and ideology from a conversation analytical perspective. The book examines the challenges that non-native internship candidates face in processes of employment when employers and job-counsellors seek to conceptualize, categorize and address the candidates' linguistic, ethnic and religious otherness. The book shows how processes of categorization are influenced by broader structures of ideology related to social issues of controversy and debate such as migration, integration and second-language learning. The book also includes an overview of previous gatekeeping studies and proposes a redefinition of the term, which suggests a broader meaning and relevance of the notion.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The Internship Interview - A Hybrid Communicative Event -- 2. Gatekeeping - An Interactional and Ideological Process -- 3. Categories and Knowledge in Interaction -- 4. When Background is Foregrounded - Nationality and 'Ways of Life' -- 5. Do You Understand? The Issue of Language -- 6. Liquor, Pork and Scarfs - The Issue of Religion -- 7. Gatekeeping - The Power of Categories -- 8. Interactional Pitfalls and Pointers -- Appendix 1: Legal Extracts -- Appendix 2: Transcription Notations -- Appendix 3: Overview of Data -- Appendix 4: Distribution of Cases Across Interviews -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index