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Immigration and bureaucratic control : language practices in public administration /
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 ma...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
Mouton de Gruyter,
©2008.
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| Series: | Language, power, and social process ;
20. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of 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.