Domestic Workers Talk: Language Use and Social Practices in a Multilingual Workplace

by Kellie Goncalves

Book Overview

Set in a multilingual cleaning company that serves Anglophone customers in the upper-(middle) class suburbs of New York City, this book presents an ethnographic study into power, language policy and communication from the perspectives of the Brazilian-American employer as well as the company's Hispanophone and Lusophone employees.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1800416741
• ISBN13: 9781800416741
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"