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Angouri, Jo and Humonen, Kristina (2023) “I just sit, drink and go back to work” : topographies of language practice at work. Multilingua - Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 42 (1). pp. 55-82. doi:10.1515/multi-2021-0156 ISSN 0167-8507.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/multi-2021-0156
Abstract
The paper explores the in situ negotiation of in/exclusion in and through language in a multilingual professional setting, paying special attention to the relationship between language and space. We argue that multilingual practices and material space are co-constitutive; individuals enact group membership and professional roles spatiolinguistically and re/produce in/visible social and material boundaries. Despite the well-established literature on in/exclusion, the ways in which it is negotiated in asymmetrical, emplaced, workplace encounters is still underexplored. We introduce a topographies of practice framework and show how professional asymmetries are enacted in and through language choice and language use in the multilingual workplace. We take an Interactional Sociolinguistic approach and report on the analysis of 23 h of interactional data and 42 h of ethnographic observations from a professional, multilingual kitchen in Finland. We show patterns that are un/marked in the data and constitute the norms in this particular workplace. We argue that topographies of practice are topographies of in/exclusion enacted in and through situated encounters; we pay special attention to the role of employees who are legitimised to cross visible and invisible boundaries and we close the paper with recommendations for future research.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||||||
| SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Multilingualism, Communication in organizations, Language in the workplace, Language acquisition, Sociolinguistics | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Multilingua - Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication | ||||||||
| Publisher: | De Gruyter Mouton | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0167-8507 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 27 January 2023 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 42 | ||||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 55-82 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1515/multi-2021-0156 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 21 March 2023 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 22 March 2023 | ||||||||
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