Linguistic Ideologies: The Politics of Language and Worker's Resistance
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Linguistic Ideologies: The Politics of Language and Worker’s Resistance Khaled Islaih OISE / University of Toronto Dissent and Resistance in the Workplace Conference Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies McMaster University, Hamilton Oct 3-4, 2014
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Presented at Dissent and Resistance in the Workplace Conference, organized by Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies at MacMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Linguistic Ideologies:The Politics of Language and Worker’s
Resistance
Khaled Islaih OISE / University of Toronto
Dissent and Resistance in the Workplace Conference Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies
McMaster University, HamiltonOct 3-4, 2014
ObjectivesHighlight links between language
politics and organization of workRethink human labour as
multimodal phenomenaCritique official Canadian
language policies and ideologiesOffer suggestions to resist
dominant neoliberal monolinguistic ideologies in Canadian workplaces.
Linguistic Biography
Sociolinguistic Superdiversity
Globalization, immigration and new technologies are creating superdiversity within communities and workplaces.
New sociolinguistic order Challenging native
speakerism? Bakhtin’s dialogic
perspectives on language Challenging neoliberal
ideologies on language and multilingualism.
Multimodal Labour: The Politics of Language
Print literacy and Taylorization of work
Text mediates people’s ways of knowing and acting (Zurawski, 2012)
Multimodality is breaking body/landscape dichotomy (Davies, 2000)
Language is constitutive of work (Putnam, Nicotera 2009)
Worker’s Resistance Strategies
Translation is a key dimension of social life. Translate differently!
Information and media literacy for workers
Maker movement
Peer labour movement
