The hiring of domestic workers – normally female – in the globalised economy involves assumptions and expectations not only about the so-called ‘natural’ female instinct for childcare and cleaning, but also about language use and transmission. Domestic worker agencies play an important role at the interface between the public sphere (where the languages are normally valuable) and the home (the workplace of domestic workers). An examination of the skills discourses used in the marketing of domestic workers reveals tensions between the language and gender ideologies underpinning this juncture. Using corpus linguistics to examine London-based domestic worker agency websites, findings reveal highly traditional and conservative notions of language and gender underpinning contradictory arguments about the supposedly advantageous nature of multilingualism.

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家务工作=语言工作？伦敦多语种家政工人营销中的语言和性别意识形态

在全球化经济中雇佣家政工人——通常是女性——不仅涉及所谓的“自然”女性照顾孩子和清洁的本能，而且涉及语言使用和传播的假设和期望。家政工人机构在公共领域（语言通常很有价值的地方）和家庭（家政工人的工作场所）之间的接口上发挥着重要作用。对家庭佣工营销中使用的技能话语的检查揭示了支撑这一关头的语言和性别意识形态之间的紧张关系。使用语料库语言学检查位于伦敦的家政工人代理网站，