Domestic Workers Talk

Kellie Gonçalves is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, University of Bern, Switzerland. She is the author of Labour Policies, Language Use and the ‘New’ Economy: The Case of Adventure Tourism (2020, Palgrave Macmillan) and co-editor of Language, Global Mobilities, Blue-Collar Workers and Blue-Collar Workplaces (2021, Routledge with H. Kelly-Holmes).Anne Ambler Schluter is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Communication, Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her research focuses on the sociolinguistics of migration, discourse analysis, affective attachment/emotional labor, healthcare communication, and minority language and belonging.

With their innovative application of embodied sociolinguistics and the post-humanist paradigm, Kellie Gonçalves and Anne Schluter provide a welcome and necessary addition to multilingual studies of language and the workplace. Their ethical and engaged research approach comes through on each page, and the focus on emotional intelligence offers a fresh and very different way of approaching female leadership, particularly for sociolinguistics.

• Figures and TablesAcknowledgmentsChapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Advancing Methodology: Using a Mixed Methodological Approach within a Multilingual Cleaning CompanyChapter 3. Magda: The Personal and Professional Trajectory of Shine’s OwnerChapter 4. The Interplay between Identity, Ideology and Capital that Strengthens Cultural Attachments: The Pull of Portuguese and the Portuguese-Centric Ironbound Community for Shine's Hispanophone EmployeesChapter 5. Multicompetence as Essential and English-Language Proficiency as Secondary: Examining the Shape of Customer–Employee Interactions between Speakers who do not Share a Common LanguageChapter 6. ConclusionReferencesIndex