| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 254 pages) : illustrations, map. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Language, power, and social process,
1861-4175 ;
20
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Language, power, and social process ; 20.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Frontmatter; Contents; Chapter 1 Immigration, bureaucracy and language; Chapter 2 Service activities and bureaucratic procedure; Chapter 3 An illusion of information; Chapter 4 Strategies of information management; Chapter 5 The scrutinisation of behaviour; Chapter 6 Language choice and multilingual practice; Backmatter. |
| Summary |
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 materials and interviews, it provides a fascinating insight into the relationship between language, social heterogeneity, and practices of exclusion. The book investigates how a national agency with homogenizing views of citizenship copes with the fundamental contradiction resulting from the state's c. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Communication in public administration -- Spain.
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Communication in public administration. |
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Spain. |
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Immigrants -- Spain -- Language.
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Immigrants. |
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Multilingualism -- Spain.
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Multilingualism. |
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Sociolinguistics -- Spain.
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Sociolinguistics. |
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Spain -- Emigration and immigration.
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Emigration and immigration. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Codó, Eva, 1971- Immigration and bureaucratic control. Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©2008 9783110195897 3110195895 (DLC) 2008005115 (OCoLC)191882082 |
| ISBN |
9783110199086 (electronic book) |
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3110199084 (electronic book) |
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3110195895 |
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3110195909 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9783110195897 |
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9783110195903 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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