Angouri, Jo (2017) The politics of talk at work : negotiating membership and fitting in. In: European Centre for Modern Languages, Denmark, Aarhus, 25 Sep 2017

Research output not available from this repository.

Request-a-Copy directly from author or use local Library Get it For Me service.

Request Changes to record.

Abstract

The modern workplace is transient and diverse. Employees are expected to work in teams and to operate at the interface of linguistic, professional and geographical boundaries. In this paper I draw on ongoing and completed work and I unpack the complexities of crossing borders. I take a sociolinguistic perspective and argue that transitions are negotiated in discourse (Angouri, Marra and Holmes, 2017).

Moving between teams (or jobs, countries and professions) involves managing multiple different norms and ways of doing in enacting professional roles and identities. Employees negotiate belonging and index group membership, or the opposite, in daily life at work which has implications for claiming, and being accepted or not, as ‘one of us’. I pay special attention to the relationship between language policy and language practice and the process of ‘fitting in’ in different professional contexts.

Item Type:	Conference Item (Keynote)
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics
Official Date:	25 September 2017
Dates:	Date Event 25 September 2017 Accepted
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Conference Paper Type:	Keynote
Title of Event:	European Centre for Modern Languages, Denmark
Type of Event:	Conference
Location of Event:	Aarhus
Date(s) of Event:	25 Sep 2017
Related URLs:	Organisation

Request changes or add full text files to a record

Repository staff actions (login required)

View Item