Negotiating Boundaries at Work

Professor Jo Angouri is Director of Undergraduate Studies at the Centre for Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick Meredith Marra is Associate Professor in the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington. Professor Janet Holmes is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington.

[Negotiating Boundaries at Work] makes an invaluable contribution to the current scholarship on workplace discourse and will appeal to researchers and students in the fields of intercultural communication, applied linguistics, and language and identity, as well as to practitioners involved in the employment of border crossers.

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Negotiating boundaries at workJo Angouri, Meredith Marra & Janet HolmesPart I: Transitions to a professionChapter 2: Negotiating social legitimacy in and across contexts: Apprenticeship in a ‘dual’ training systemStefano A. Losa & Laurent FilliettazChapter 3: Language mentoring and employment ideologies: Internationally educated professionals in search of workJulie KerekesChapter 4: ‘Oh it’s a DANISH boyfriend you’ve got’- Co-membership and cultural fluency in job interviews with minority background applicants in DenmarkMarta KirilovaChapter 5: Constructing a ‘mission statement’– A multimodal perspective on believable identity construction in a job interviewEwa Kuśmierczyk-O’ConnorChapter 6: Teamwork and the ‘global graduate’: Negotiating core skills and competencies with employers in recruitment interviewsSophie Reissner-RoubicekChapter 7: ‘Doing evaluation’ in the modern workplace: Negotiating the identity of ‘model employee’ in performance appraisal interviewsDorien Van De Mieroop & Stephanie SchnurrPart II: Transitions within a professionChapter 8: Multilingualism and work experience in Germany: On the pragmatic notion of ‘patiency’Kristin Bührig & Jochen RehbeinChapter 9: Working and learning in a new niche: Ecological interpretations of work-related migrationMinna SuniChapter 10: ‘Have you still not learnt Luxembourgish’? Negotiating language boundaries in a distribution company in LuxembourgAnne FranziskusChapter 11: The ‘internationalised’ academic: Negotiating boundaries between the local, the regional and the ‘international’ at the universityAnne H. FabriciusChapter 12: Collaborating beyond disciplinary boundariesSeongsook Choi