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<p>Dear colleagues,</p>
<p>You're cordially invited to attend the public WSG-lecture of <a
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href="https://cip.ku.dk/english/staff/?pure=en/persons/589904">Kamilla
Kraft</a> (University of Copenhagen), entitled "Stereotypes and
norms in a Norwegian construction site" (abstract below).<br>
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Place: Hörsaal 1 (1. Stock), Sensengasse 3a, 1090 Wien<br>
Time: Tuesday, 17 December 2019 (18:30-20:00) <br>
<p>All are welcome to join us before the holiday break. <br>
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<p>Best wishes, <br>
Mi-Cha Flubacher<br>
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<p><b>Abstract: <br>
Stereotypes and norms in a Norwegian construction site</b><br>
This presentation explores how national stereotypes are used and
indexicalised (Jaffe 2016) by a transient<br>
management team in a Norwegian construction site. Most of the team
members have never worked together<br>
before and therefore have not yet established shared practices and
logics as a group. By focussing on the<br>
group’s activity of assigning meaning and value to different
national stereotypes (‘Norwegians’, ‘Swedes’<br>
and ‘Poles’) over a period of six months, the presentation
explores the emergence, sedimentation and transformation<br>
(cf. Agha 2007) of social norms related to these stereotypes. The
analysis draws on multiple levels<br>
of context (Cicourel 1987, Day 2008) and shows that stereotypes
are used for different purposes in the<br>
group, serving interpersonal as well as ideational functions. It
demonstrates how the use of national stereotypes<br>
are at times activated with reference to socially sedimented, or
iconic, meanings that circulate in the<br>
Norwegian construction industry, while in other cases the meanings
of these national stereotypes are established<br>
in a more incremental fashion, tied to the local context of the
group. The presentation will in particular<br>
discuss how the norms that are in play behind these observable
processes of meaning-making can be said<br>
to have a considerable impact on social roles and relationships
within and beyond the group and workplace.<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Mi-Cha Flubacher
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Dr. Mi-Cha Flubacher
Universitätsassistentin Postdoc für Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft
Universität Wien
Institut für Sprachwissenschaft
Sensengasse 3a
A-1090 Wien
Tel +43 (0)1 4277 417 14
Fax +43 (0)1 4277 9 417
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://heteroglossia.net/Mi-Cha-Flubacher.133.0.html">http://heteroglossia.net/Mi-Cha-Flubacher.133.0.html</a>
New publication:
Flubacher, M. (2019). ‘Selling the self’: packaging the narrative trajectories of workers for the labour market, International Journal of Multilingualism, aop.
Open access: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://doi.org/10.1080/14790718.2020.1682249">https://doi.org/10.1080/14790718.2020.1682249</a>
Flubacher, Mi-Cha & Hägi-Mead, Sara (eds) (2019): Taboo and Transgression. Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Migration, Integration, and Diversity (Theoretische Beiträge des Zentrums für Integrationsstudien, Band 1). Dresden: Zentrum für Integrationsstudien.
Open access: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://tu-dresden.de/gsw/der-bereich/profil/zentren/zfi/forschung-und-praxis/publikationen">https://tu-dresden.de/gsw/der-bereich/profil/zentren/zfi/forschung-und-praxis/publikationen</a></pre>
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