Transience and Tunnel Esperanto: A study of multilingualism, work and relationship-building on a tunnel mining project
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Transience and Tunnel Esperanto: A study of multilingualism, work and relationship-building on a tunnel mining project. / Kraft, Kamilla.
In: International Journal of the Sociology of Language, Vol. 264, 2020, p. 163-186.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Transience and Tunnel Esperanto: A study of multilingualism, work and relationship-building on a tunnel mining project
AU - Kraft, Kamilla
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - This paper investigates multilingualism as language and communication discourses and practices in a Copenhagen metro tunnel construction project. This project is characterized by transience: continual time-space changes of work organization and staff relations combined. In this scenario, a highly international and multilingual staff composition puts focus on language and communication. Based on interviews with managers and workers from one of the project’s contractors, as well as observations of daily work in the tunnels, the analysis demonstrates participants’ discursive constructions of language and communication, sometimes linking these concepts to work, sometimes to relationship-building. I argue that these constructions are closely interlinked with the workplace’s transient status and conditions, and draw out how they have empowering as well as exploitative implications for the workers.
AB - This paper investigates multilingualism as language and communication discourses and practices in a Copenhagen metro tunnel construction project. This project is characterized by transience: continual time-space changes of work organization and staff relations combined. In this scenario, a highly international and multilingual staff composition puts focus on language and communication. Based on interviews with managers and workers from one of the project’s contractors, as well as observations of daily work in the tunnels, the analysis demonstrates participants’ discursive constructions of language and communication, sometimes linking these concepts to work, sometimes to relationship-building. I argue that these constructions are closely interlinked with the workplace’s transient status and conditions, and draw out how they have empowering as well as exploitative implications for the workers.
U2 - 10.1515/ijsl-2020-2098
DO - 10.1515/ijsl-2020-2098
M3 - Journal article
VL - 264
SP - 163
EP - 186
JO - International Journal of the Sociology of Language
JF - International Journal of the Sociology of Language
SN - 0165-2516
ER -
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