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This original study focuses on how bureaucrats exert multiple forms of control over migrants, and specifically, how they restrict their access to key bureaucratic information. Drawing on a unique corpus of data gathered in a multilingual immigration office in Spain, this book will be welcomed by students and researchers in the fields of sociolinguistics, language and immigration, institutional talk, and multilingualism.

An investigation of the influence of bureaucratic language in corporate organization, & the responses of liberal & radical feminists to this influence. Through Michel Foucault's analysis of speech & power, organizational discourse is demonstrated to be normative, eg, as in the bureaucratic category of personnel management. A review of recent literature on personnel management reveals a four-pronged process of legitimation through which discourse reflects a hierarchy of power: (1) Workers are described as objects to be manipulated for the needs of the organization. (2) The personnel bureaucracy has established legitimacy by describing itself as a resource for other bureaucracies. (3) Problems are described as resulting from misallocation of individuals, rather than from the organizational structure. (4) The discourse effectively establishes the organizational structure as unalterable by co-opting terms that suggest change -- a process that may also be called "mystification." The liberal feminist response involves accepting existing organizational structures & formulating strategies for integrating women into them, albeit with the codicil that such game-playing is infantile, if necessary. The radical response recognizes the price paid by those who are voluntarily subsumed in the organizational system, & eschews it, preferring to form antibureaucratic structures that stress egalitarian values & shared resources. A. Padgett.

This edited collection explores how food language is political. The contributors examine the production of food language in conjunction with historical social movements, food labeling practices, illustrations of social class, as well as corporate and bureaucratic language.

This article illuminates the social nature of bureaucratic practice by analyzing the everyday speech of bureaucrats in a polyglossic society. My ethnographic analysis shows how Taipei city government administrators mobilize ideologies associated with Taiwan's two primary languages, and stereotypes associated with bureaucracy, to undermine both. Instead, they present themselves as a postethnonational and postbureaucratic avant‐garde of their new democracy. In doing so, they draw on local values and tropes of legitimation, which place a premium on the personalistic relations and social imbrication of government actors—relations that democracy, for all its potential to spawn dangerous chaos, is seen to facilitate. They represent their government employer not by claiming a superordinate status for it but by situating it as one participant within a complex of institutions, networks, and values. In illuminating both the internally and the externally social nature of government bureaucracy, I highlight the creative and progressive possibilities hidden within the drab government office.

"Cover" -- "TABLE OF CONTENTS" -- "List of Acronyms and Abbreviations" -- "Acknowledgments" -- "Introduction: Standards and Their Tinkering" -- "Setting the Stage: The Bureaucratic Field in Turkey" -- "1. Training Bureaucrats, Practicing for Europe" -- "2. Human Rights, Good Governance, and Professional Expertise" -- "Pedagogies of Accession: Translation, Management, and Performance" -- "3. Human Rights Education and Adult Learning" -- "4. Translation and the Limits of State Language" -- "5. Dramas of Statehood and Bureaucratic Ambiguity" -- "Conclusion: Of Fragments and Violations" -- "Notes" -- "Bibliography" -- "Index" -- "A" -- "B" -- "C" -- "D" -- "E" -- "F" -- "G" -- "H" -- "I" -- "J" -- "K" -- "L" -- "M" -- "N" -- "O" -- "P" -- "R" -- "S" -- "T" -- "U" -- "V" -- "W" -- "Y

Understanding bureaucracy -- Bureaucracy as society : loss of the social -- Bureaucracy as the new culture : "economics" -- The psychology of bureaucracy : organization as psyche -- The language of bureaucracy : virtual words -- The thought of bureaucracy : failure of imagination -- Bureaucracy as polity : politics as administration -- Bureaucracy, modernity, and post-modernity

This study examines the barriers to female entrepreneurship in India's microenterprise sector through society and bureaucracy. The study uses grammatical genders in languages to capture the societal attitudes towards female entrepreneurship. Using a probit model, it was found that states where the spoken language is two-gendered, have poor representations of women in entrepreneurial positions compared with states with languages that are multi-gender or no gender. It is further argued that these societal attitudes also reflect through people in power, such as bureaucrats, credit managers, bankers, etc., which affects female entrepreneurship. The paper finds empirical evidence for the grease-the-wheel hypothesis, i.e., in the presence of a discriminating inefficient business ecosystem, women entrepreneurs use non-market strategies such as corruption to alter decisions in their favour. Thus, an effort to reduce corruption at an immature stage, when these societal institutions have not yet developed, might cause more harm than benefit.

Language, Bureaucracy and Social Control explores the varying inter-relationships between language, forms of bureaucratic organisation and social control. The text provides a detailed examination of the discursive dimensions of some of the key techniques of modern power: the 'productive' surveillance practices of administrative and public service institutions. Special attention is paid to recent developments within the state domain and the private economy such as the introduction of consumerism and promotional practices in welfare institutions, and the spread of bureaucratisation in contexts s