Woydack, Johanna, Rampton, Ben. 2015. WP 147 Text trajectories in a multilingual call centre: The linguistic ethnography of a calling script.. Working Papers in Urban Language and Literacy. King's College London.

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@MISC{Tovar2015,
title = {WP 147 Text trajectories in a multilingual call centre: The linguistic ethnography of a calling script.},
author = {Johanna Tovar and Ben Rampton},
year = {2015},
url = {https://www.academia.edu/10172667/WP147_Woydack_and_Rampton_2015._Text_trajectories_in_a_multilingual_call_centre_The_linguistic_ethnography_of_a_calling_script},
language = {EN},
series = {Working Papers in Urban Language and Literacy. King's College London},
abstract = {Call centres have been widely criticised as standardized workplaces, and the imposition of calling scripts is often characterised as dehumanizing and deskilling. But these accounts lack close analysis of how scripts are actually produced, taken up and used by call centre workers, and they are generally locked into dualistic analyses of control and resistance. In contrast, this paper combines long-term ethnography with transcontextual analysis of the production, circulation and uptake of calling scripts. This reveals a good deal of collective and individual agency in processes of text-adaptation, and produces a rather more nuanced picture of work in a call centre.},
}