In line with the post-Fishmanian turn that contributes to new understandings of social-semiotic practices in different contexts this study is concerned with the language management of ‘backstage performers’ of a three-star hotel kitchen crew in an Austrian alpine village that economically thrives on tourism, where employers and employees do not always share a common ‘language’. Recent free mobility labor rights for certain EU citizens have facilitated economic migrants’ ability to work abroad while simultaneously filling labor shortages within the country’s service industry in peripheral zones that are salient economic hubs. Drawing on ethnography and moment analysis, results indicate that for language-marginal occupations such as dishwashers, linguistic entrepreneurship is resisted since relying on shared semiotic repertoires and material objects for communicative purposes is preferred given the physically demanding occupation and stressful moments in a restaurant kitchen. The study questions Spolsky’s recently modified theory of language policy and management concerning the individual level regarding ‘advocates without power’ and employability contributing theoretical insights to on-going explorations of bottom-up LPP.

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“这他妈的是什么语言，这不可能是德语？” 酒店餐厅厨房工作人员的语言意识形态、政策和符号学实践

与有助于对不同背景下社会符号学实践的新理解的后鱼人主义转变相一致，本研究关注经济繁荣的奥地利高山村庄三星级酒店厨房工作人员的“后台表演者”的语言管理在旅游业方面，雇主和雇员并不总是使用共同的“语言”。最近某些欧盟公民的自由流动劳工权利促进了经济移民在国外工作的能力，同时填补了该国在作为突出经济中心的外围地区的服务业的劳动力短缺。利用民族志和时刻分析，结果表明，对于语言边缘的职业，如洗碗工，语言创业受到抵制，因为考虑到餐厅厨房对体力要求的职业和压力时刻，依赖共享的符号库和物质对象进行交流是首选。该研究质疑 Spolsky 最近修改的关于“没有权力的倡导者”和就业能力的个人层面的语言政策和管理理论，为自下而上的 LPP 的持续探索提供了理论见解。