Immigration and Bureaucratic Control : : Language Practices in Public Administration / / Eva Codó.
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 ma...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008] ©2008 |
Year of Publication: | 2008 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Language, Power and Social Process [LPSP] ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (254 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Part I: Situating the study
- Chapter 1 Immigration, bureaucracy and
- language
- Chapter 2 Service activities and bureaucratic
- procedure
- Part II: Information as valuable capital
- Chapter 3 An illusion of information
- Chapter 4 Strategies of information
- management
- Part III: Regimented spaces
- Chapter 5 The scrutinisation of behaviour
- Chapter 6 Language choice and multilingual
- practice
- Backmatter