Linguistic Penalties and the Job Interview - Celia Roberts
Decision Making: Institutional Evaluation, Local Practices and Writing the Interview
Linguistic Penalties and the Job Interview - Celia Roberts
Celia Roberts [+]
King's College, London
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Celia Roberts is Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics at King's College, London.
Description
This chapter traces the processes by which final decisions are made. It shows how interview judgements are embedded in the social evaluation of all talk and interaction and discusses how these subjective processes are masked by institutionally required objective standards. The slippage from objectivity to a pure subjectivity is traced through changing interviewer criteria and the business of record keeping.