What is the influence of linguistic profiling on employability?.How can linguistics help, harm, or benefit career progress?.How do workplace accents affect career development?.
How do people modify their accents to achieve career success?.What is the influence of linguistic profiling on culture, global economics, and technology innovation within career development?.Submissions will seek to address the following questions, but not limited to: We welcome both qualitative (Richardson et al., 2022) and quantitative designs (Schreurs et al., 2022). We encourage the use of appropriate methods for both the research context and related research questions. We expect manuscripts to bring strong empirical contributions that develop and extend career theory as well as more conceptual papers that integrate, critique, and expand existing career theories. This special issue invites authors to adopt a multidisciplinary approach to the topic of linguistic profiling’s influence on career development.
In doing so, it welcomes research that delves into the dark side of careers and seeks to shed light on the harmful effects of linguistic profiling on career development processes and outcomes. This special issue seeks to add a linguistic perspective to enrich career theory and practice. Understanding of the cultural, global economic, and technological innovation effects on linguistic profiling as it relates to the career development of employees is limited and there has always been a dark side of contemporary careers. 146) suggested that scholars needed to “Investigate the dark side of contemporary careers.” In response, the purpose of this special issue is premised on the notion that some diversity is already in the workplace (Hughes, 2018). Individuals may be forced to alter their self-presentation at work (Dolezal, 2017 Goffman, 1949).īaruch and Sullivan (2022, p. Linguistic profiling when used inappropriately prohibits the influences of diverse practices and decreases the collaborative effectiveness of individuals within an organization. The effects of linguistic profiling may limit exposure to diverse cultures within groups at work and create homogeneous environments that lead to groupthink and lack of innovation (Wanous and Youtz, 1986). Rahman (2008) found that racial identity was identified by listeners in 28 seconds and Anderson (2007) showed racial identity was determined in only 16 seconds. There are individuals who are screened out of jobs within 3-5 seconds due to linguistic profiling during telephone interviews (Purnell et al., 1999). Other examples are nowhere near as highly profiled and do not have such a positive ending. Stuttering is just one example of linguistics that is profiled in the workplace. Examples of linguistic profiling exist at all levels, including the President of the United States, Joe Biden, whose career has been scrutinized because he struggled with stuttering. One aspect where linguistic profiling has not been examined closely is individuals’ career experiences. The influences of linguistic profiling on individuals’ lives have been both positive and negative. We are still learning ways to enhance the career progression of individuals (Hughes and Niu, 2021 Hughes et al., 2019 Varma et al., 2022). When linguistic profiling describes discriminatory practices, it can be considered the auditory equivalent of racial profiling (Smalls, 2004).Ĭareer development theory (Super and Jordaan, 1973) examines how individuals grow and develop in their careers. Linguistic profiling is a term used to describe inferences derived from a person’s speech (Smalls, 2004) and has been shown to influence individuals’ development in many ways. Simpson’s attorney objected to the notion that race could be identified solely based on speech queues. 363) defines linguistic profiling as “identify an individual … as belonging to a linguistic subgroup within a given speech community, including a racial subgroup.” and noted that one of the most famous occasions in which linguistic profiling took center stage was during the 1995 O. There are several branches of linguistics, including sociolinguistics, dialectology, and applied linguistics among others has been used to discriminate and profile individuals in the workplace (Anderson, 2007 Barrett et al., 2022 Craft et al., 2020 Hughes and Mamiseishvili, 2018), thus stymieing their careers. Linguistics is the scientific study of language and its structure. However, there is limited research on how the systemic barrier of linguistic profiling enables or hinders the role of the organization or individual career development (Hughes and Mamiseishvili, 2018 ). Current career literature examines systemic barriers that diverse individuals encounter and some of the contextual factors that enable or hinder their career progression.
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