Language, Bureaucracy, and Social Control

Language, Bureaucracy, and Social Control By Srikant Sarangi, Stefaan Slembrouck
1996 | 242 Pages | ISBN: 058208623X | PDF | 13 MB
This text examines the wide range of issues involved in bureaucratic language, illustrating the complex inter-relationships between language, bureaucracy and social control. The authors use real life, varying data in their analysis, taken from institutions in the UK, Netherlands and Belgium: this includes face-to-face interaction, telephone language and written correspondence.