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Publication details [#58706]

Raymond, Chase Wesley. 2014. Negotiating entitlement to language: Calling 911 without English. Language in Society 43 (1) : 33–59.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational analysis | emergency conversation | institutional language | language use | telephone conversation

Language as a subject

English, American | Spanish

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper discusses the negotiation of other-than-English language use by non-native (in this case Spanish) callers to the US emergency service telephone number 911, and by call-takers, who prefer English over the application of translation services.