2011
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9841.2010.00466.x
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‘Building rapport’ with customers across the world: The global diffusion of a call centre speech style1

Abstract: This paper identifies a particular ‘rapport‐building’ speech style prescribed to call centre workers in four countries – Denmark, Britain, Hong Kong and the Philippines – irrespective of the language being spoken in the service interaction. It then compares Danish and British call centre workers’ compliance with the prescribed speech style and finds that Danish workers adhere significantly less to it than their British counterparts. It is suggested that this is attributable to the predominance of different pol… Show more

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“…A recent article by Hultgren () points out a key salient point that is sometimes forgotten or lost in discussions of the call centre phenomenon worldwide. In brief, her argument is that call centres, as an ‘organizational prototype’ were first developed in the US from the 1960s onwards as a means of rationalising customer service interactions across a range of industries.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A recent article by Hultgren () points out a key salient point that is sometimes forgotten or lost in discussions of the call centre phenomenon worldwide. In brief, her argument is that call centres, as an ‘organizational prototype’ were first developed in the US from the 1960s onwards as a means of rationalising customer service interactions across a range of industries.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The intervention specifically foregrounds rather than downplays critical engagement with the global spread of English but also discusses other lingua francas in the world, aiming to raise students' wider awareness of multilingualism (Hultgren 2011).…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Vi ved kun med sikkerhed at der i den globaliserede serviceøkonomi, som her er eksemplificeret ved callcentre, er en udbredt tendens til at gøre sproget og kommunikationen til genstand for omfattende opmaerksomhed, diskussion og ikke sjaeldent normering (duchêne & Heller 2012;eustace 2012;taylor & Bain 2005). i min egen forskning har jeg fundet at dette også gaelder danske callcentre (Hultgren 2011(Hultgren , 2008. Når det gaelder universiteter, som er den anden type af arbejdspladser som der ses naermere på i denne artikel, synes det også at vaere tilfaeldet at der er en øget interesse for sproglige forhold, i hvert fald på nordiske universiteter og isaer for dem der drejer sig om den stigende brug af engelsk (Godenhjelm, Saarinen m.fl.…”
Section: Sproglig Normering En Indkredsning Af Begrebetunclassified
“…eksemplerne ovenfor er taget fra et dansk callcenter i telekommunikationsbranchen, hvor størtstedelen af opkaldene er indkommende, men tendensen til at udøve sproglig normering i den globaliserede callcenterindustri er udbredt (eustace 2012; Hultgren 2011Hultgren , 2008taylor & Bain 2005). da jeg besøgte callcentre i Skotland, Filippinerne og Hongkong, fandt jeg for det første at sproglig normering af den type der blev eksemplificeret ovenfor, fandt sted overalt.…”
Section: Sproglig Normering I Callcentreunclassified
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