Bücher der Reihe Language, Mobility and Institutions

This critical sociolinguistic ethnography explores "locutorios" (ethnic call shops) in Barcelona, where migrant populations mobilise to challenge the global private telecommunications sector as well as present-day governments. These migrant-owned businesses act as a window into their multimodal and hybrid communicative practices.

This book is a detailed examination of citizenship and English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) in the UK. It draws attention to the crucial role of teachers as mediators between policy and the needs of adult migrant students. The book links together pedagogy and theory with the practical concerns of ESOL teachers and students.

This book is a detailed examination of citizenship and English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) in the UK. It draws attention to the crucial role of teachers as mediators between policy and the needs of adult migrant students. The book links together pedagogy and theory with the practical concerns of ESOL teachers and students.

Each chapter in this volume adds an empirical perspective to our understanding of how language relates to migration in a specific national context. The chapters use innovative combinations of multimodal, qualitative and quantitative analyses to examine a broad range of genres and data related to the voices of migrants and reporting about migrants.

This book is about categorization processes in native/non-native workplace interaction, in the context of internship interviews between Danish employers and second language speakers who were born abroad. This book, which is one of the 1st on gatekeeping, seeks to address processes of power and ideology from a conversation analytical perspective.