Languaging the worker: globalized governmentalities in/of language in peripheral spaces

Kati Dlaske*, Elisabeth Barakos, Kyoko Motobayashi, Mireille McLaughlin

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    Abstract

    In the introduction to the special issue “Languaging the worker: globalized governmentalities in/of language in peripheral spaces”, we take up the notion of governmentality as a means to interrogate the complex relationship between language, labor, power and subjectivity in peripheral multilingual spaces. Our aim here is to argue for the study of governmentality as a viable and growing approach in critical sociolinguistic research. As such, in this introduction, we first discuss key concepts germane to our interrogations, including the notions of governmentality, languaging, peripherality and language worker. We proceed to map out five ethnographically and discourse-analytically informed case studies. These examine diverse actors in different settings pertaining to the domain of work. Finally we chart how the case studies construe the issue of languaging the worker through a governmentality frame.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)345-359
    Number of pages15
    JournalMultilingua
    Volume35
    Issue number4
    Early online date6 Jan 2016
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1 Jul 2016

    Bibliographical note

    Copyright: Walter de Gruyter

    Keywords

    • governmentality
    • sociolinguistics of globalization
    • peripherality
    • work
    • multilingualism

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