Neutral Accent: How Language, Labor, and Life Become Global - Image 1

£81.00

Duke University Press Neutral Accent: How Language, Labor, and Life Become Global

Name: Neutral Accent: How Language, Labor, and Life Become Global
Brand: Duke University Press
Price: 81.0 GBP
Availability: InStock

Landscape

Price History & Forecast

Last 71 days • 71 data points

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 71 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £81 (71 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £81 - £81

Price levels: 1 different prices over 71 days

Description

In Neutral Accent, A. Aneesh employs India's call centers as useful sites for studying global change. The horizon of global economic shift, the consequences of global integration, and the ways in which call center work "neutralizes" racial, ethnic, and national identities become visible from the confines of their cubicles. In his interviews with call service workers and in his own work in a call center in the high tech metropolis of Gurgoan, India, Aneesh observed the difficulties these workers face in bridging cultures, laws, and economies: having to speak in an accent that does not betray their ethnicity, location, or social background; learning foreign social norms; and working graveyard shifts to accommodate international customers. Call center work is cast as independent of place, space, and time, and its neutrality—which Aneesh defines as indifference to difference—has become normal business practice in a global economy. The work of call center employees in the globally integrated marketplace comes at a cost, however, as they become disconnected from the local interactions and personal relationships that make their lives anything but neutral.

Product Specifications

Brand: Duke University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0822358468
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Architecture > Landscape
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 15 May 2015
Listed Since: 08 August 2014

Barcode

No barcode data available

Duke University Press Neutral Accent: How Language, Labor, and Life Become Global

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Accent and Teacher Identity in Britain: Linguistic Favouritism and Imposed Identities

Accent in North American Film and Television: A Sociophonetic Analysis

Perceiving Identity through Accent: Attitudes towards Non-Native Speakers and their Accents in English: 35 (Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics)

English Accents and Dialects: An Introduction to Social and Regional Varieties of English in the British Isles, Fifth Edition (The English Language Series)

English with an Accent: Language, Ideology, and Discrimination in the United States

Foreign Accent: The Phenomenon of Non-native Speech

Accents of English I: An Introduction: 01

English Accents and Dialects: An Introduction to Social and Regional Varieties of English in the British Isles

The Social Meanings of Language, Dialect and Accent: International Perspectives on Speech Styles: 16 (Language as Social Action)

Indexing Authenticity: Sociolinguistic Perspectives: 39 (linguae & litterae, 39)

African Accents: A Workbook for Actors

New Media and Intercultural Communication - IGI Global

Tonal Change and Neutralization: 27 (Phonology and Phonetics [PP], 27)

Accents of English: Volume 2: Beyond the British Isles: 02

Asian Women, Identity and Migration: Experiences of Transnational Women of Indian Origin/Heritage (Routledge Studies in Asian Diasporas, Migrations and Mobilities)

Language, Culture, and Communication: The Meaning of Messages

Accents of English: Beyond The British Isles

The Dialects of British English in Fictional Texts (Routledge Research in Language and Communication)

Accents and Speech in Teaching English Phonetics and Phonology: EFL Perspective: 5 (Lodz Studies in Language)

Language, Culture, and Communication: The Meaning of Messages

Globalization, Communication and the Workplace: Talking Across the World

Urban Contact Dialects and Language Change: Insights from the Global North and South (Routledge Studies in Language Change)

Contending with Globalization in World Englishes (Critical Language and Literacy Studies): 9

Communicating Across Cultures, Second Edition (The Guilford Communication Series)