Interactional Categorization and Gatekeeping: Institutional Encounters with Otherness

Louise Tranekjær

Published by Multilingual Matters 2015

Interactional Categorization and Gatekeeping

Institutional Encounters with Otherness

Louise Tranekjær

In the series Language, Mobility and Institutions

https://doi.org/10.21832/9781783093687

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About this book

This book is about categorization processes in native/non-native workplace interaction, in the context of internship interviews between Danish employers and second language speakers who were born abroad. This book, which is one of the 1st on gatekeeping, seeks to address processes of power and ideology from a conversation analytical perspective.

Author / Editor information

Tranekjær Louise :

Louise Tranekjær is Associate Professor in the Department of Culture and Identity at Roskilde University, Denmark. Her research interests include institutional interaction, membership categorization analysis, identity, processes of inclusion and exclusion and discourse analysis.

Reviews

Frederick Erickson, University of California, Los Angeles, USA:

This study builds upon and advances earlier research on gatekeeping encounters, showing the importance of the presence of co-membership or its opposite – the establishment of a we-relation or a you-relation among interlocutors. Combining approaches from interactional sociolinguistics, conversation analysis, and cultural studies, the book presents compelling transcribed examples and provides fresh insights into the performance of social identity in face-to-face interaction.

Massimiliano Spotti, Tilburg University, The Netherlands:

Taking as a point of departure the seminal work of Sarangi and Roberts, and more generally of linguistic anthropology, the author manages to take us through the thick intricacies of tense gatekeeping encounters like those of internship interviews, often the first way into the (unpaid) working world for many immigrant minority youngsters. Surely, the author has got the job done right.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. The Internship Interview – A Hybrid Communicative Event Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
2. Gatekeeping – An Interactional and Ideological Process Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
3. Categories and Knowledge in Interaction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
4. When Background is Foregrounded – Nationality and ‘Ways of Life’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
5. Do You Understand? The Issue of Language Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
6. Liquor, Pork and Scarfs – The Issue of Religion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	200
7. Gatekeeping – The Power of Categories Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	238
8. Interactional Pitfalls and Pointers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	250
Appendix 1: Legal Extracts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
Appendix 2: Transcription Notations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
Appendix 3: Overview of Data Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	270
Appendix 4: Distribution of Cases Across Interviews Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	272
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