Gendered Talk at Work examines how women and men negotiate their gender identities as well as their professional roles in everyday workplace communication.
* written accessibly by one of the field’s foremost researchers
* explores the ways in which gender contributes to the interpretation of meaning in workplace interaction
* uses original and insightfully analyzed data to focus on the ways in which both women and men draw on gendered discourse resources to enact a range of workplace roles
* illustrates how a qualitative analysis of workplace discourse can throw light on the many ways in which workplace discourse provides a resource for constructing gender identity as one component of our complex socio-cultural identity
Innehållsförteckning
List of Figures.
Acknowledgements.
1. The role of gender in workplace talk.
2. Gender and leadership talk at work.
3. Relational practice – not just women’s work.
4. Humour in the workplace – not just men’s
play.
5. Contest, challenge and complaint – gendered discourse?.
6. Women and men telling stories at work.
7. Giving women the last word.
Appendix: Transcription Conventions.
References.
Index.
Om författaren
Janet Holmes holds a personal Chair in Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington. Her publications include The Blackwell Handbook of Language and Gender (2003; co-edited with Miriam Meyerhoff), Power and Politeness in the Workplace (2003; with Maria Stubbe), and Women, Men and Politeness (1995).
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