Transience and Tunnel Esperanto: A study of multilingualism, work and relationship-building on a tunnel mining project
| Autor: | Kamilla Kraft |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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050101 languages & linguistics
Linguistics and Language 060101 anthropology Work organization business.industry Esperanto grammar 05 social sciences Relationship building 06 humanities and the arts Public relations Tunnel construction Language and Linguistics Work (electrical) 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 0601 history and archaeology Multilingualism Sociology business On Language Composition (language) |
| Zdroj: | Kraft, K 2020, ' Transience and Tunnel Esperanto: A study of multilingualism, work and relationship-building on a tunnel mining project ', International Journal of the Sociology of Language, vol. 264, pp. 163-186 . https://doi.org/10.1515/ijsl-2020-2098 |
| ISSN: | 1613-3668 0165-2516 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/ijsl-2020-2098 |
| Popis: | This paper investigates multilingualism as language and communication discourses and practices in a Copenhagen metro tunnel construction project. This project is characterized by transience: continual time-space changes of work organization and staff relations combined. In this scenario, a highly international and multilingual staff composition puts focus on language and communication. Based on interviews with managers and workers from one of the project’s contractors, as well as observations of daily work in the tunnels, the analysis demonstrates participants’ discursive constructions of language and communication, sometimes linking these concepts to work, sometimes to relationship-building. I argue that these constructions are closely interlinked with the workplace’s transient status and conditions, and draw out how they have empowering as well as exploitative implications for the workers. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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