33.596, Books: Power Dynamics at Work: Hovens

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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2022 19:24:04
From: Janacy van Duijn Genet [lot at uva.nl]
Subject: Power Dynamics at Work: Hovens

 


Title: Power Dynamics at Work 
Subtitle: An Ethnography of a Multilingual Metal Foundry in the Dutch-German
Borderland 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/power-dynamics-at-work 


Author: Daan Hovens

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460933875 Pages: 196 Price: Europe EURO 31


Abstract:

This PhD dissertation is a linguistic ethnography of a metal foundry in the
Dutch province of Limburg, in the Dutch-German borderland. When its fieldwork
data were collected in 2017, over 300 people with many different language
backgrounds worked in the production departments of the foundry, including
Dutch, German, Limburgish, and Polish, as well as Arabic, Greek, Russian, and
Turkish, among others. Some workers lived on the Dutch, others on the German
side of the border. Slightly more than half were temporary workers, and an
important part of their daily and nightly work consisted of interactions with
machines.

The dissertation shows that majoritised speakers in the foundry tended to find
the language diversity at work more problematic than minoritised speakers.
Furthermore, it shows that the transience of many work relations posed a
bigger challenge to workplace communication and workplace learning than
language diversity. In fact, workers often had a harder time understanding the
machines in the foundry than each other. The dissertation reflects upon these
and other observations, and it explores a rich theoretical vocabulary in its
descriptions of blue-collar life-worlds in order to do justice to the complex
relations between different speakers, and between humans and machines.

Power Dynamics at Work may be of relevance to anyone interested in
multilingual communication in blue-collar workplaces, language policies,
ethnographies of workplace learning and human-machine interaction, as well as
posthumanist applied linguistics.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Applied Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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