LEADER 03832nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910807016203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-42848-2 010 $a9786613428486 010 $a3-11-019908-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110199086 035 $a(CKB)1000000000691485 035 $a(EBL)364688 035 $a(OCoLC)476197130 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000176830 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11182944 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000176830 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10210095 035 $a(PQKB)10317519 035 $a(DE-B1597)34867 035 $a(OCoLC)471132590 035 $a(OCoLC)703226805 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110199086 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC364688 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000691485 100 $a20080204d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aImmigration and bureaucratic control $elanguage practices in public administration /$fby Eva Codo 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBerlin ;$aNew York $cMouton de Gruyter$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (272 p.) 225 1 $aLanguage, power, and social process,$x1861-4175 ;$v20 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-11-019589-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPart I: Situating the study -- $tChapter 1 Immigration, bureaucracy and language -- $tChapter 2 Service activities and bureaucratic procedure -- $tPart II: Information as valuable capital -- $tChapter 3 An illusion of information -- $tChapter 4 Strategies of information management -- $tPart III: Regimented spaces -- $tChapter 5 The scrutinisation of behaviour -- $tChapter 6 Language choice and multilingual practice -- $t Backmatter 330 $aThis original study looks at language practices in a government agency responsible for granting or denying legal status to transnational migrants in Spain. Drawing on a unique corpus of naturally-occurring verbal interactions between state officials and migrant petitioners as well as ethnographic materials and interviews, it provides a fascinating insight into the relationship between language, social heterogeneity, and practices of exclusion. The book investigates how a national agency with homogenizing views of citizenship copes with the fundamental contradiction resulting from the state's commitment to the values of pluralism, justice, and equality, and its function as the regulator of access to socioeconomic resources. By focusing on information provision, the book explores how much room there is for individual agency in institutional contexts; and shows that what happens in front-line talk has very little to do with allowing immigrants access to crucial information but rather revolves around the regimentation of language and behavior, and the enactment of social control. This publication will be welcomed by students and researchers in the fields of sociolinguistics, language and immigration, institutional talk, and multilingualism. 410 0$aLanguage, power, and social process ;$v20. 606 $aSociolinguistics$zSpain 606 $aCommunication in public administration$zSpain 606 $aImmigrants$zSpain$xLanguage 606 $aMultilingualism$zSpain 607 $aSpain$xEmigration and immigration 615 0$aSociolinguistics 615 0$aCommunication in public administration 615 0$aImmigrants$xLanguage. 615 0$aMultilingualism 676 $a306.440946 700 $aCodo$b Eva$f1971-$01751535 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807016203321 996 $aImmigration and bureaucratic control$94186533 997 $aUNINA