Gendered Talk At Work - Constructing Gender Identity Through Workplace Discourse

Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext How do we talk at work? Are there distinctively 'feminine' or particularly 'masculine' ways of interacting in the workplace? If so, who uses them, and in what contexts? This book explores the ways in which gender contributes to the interpretation of meaning in workplace interaction, and examines how women and men negotiate their gender identities as well as their professional roles in everyday workplace communication. Using original and insightfully analyzed data, Janet Holmes focuses not on how women and men differ in the ways they communicate power and authority, but rather on the ways in which both draw on gendered discourse resources to enact a range of workplace roles. Zusammenfassung Gendered Talk at Work examines how women and men negotiate their gender identities as well as their professional roles in everyday workplace communication. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Holmes, Janet Holmes, Janet (Victoria University of Wellington) Holmes, Holmes Janet
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.06.2006
• EAN: 9781405117593
• ISBN: 978-1-4051-1759-3
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Language and Social Change; Language and Social Change
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Advertising, marketing; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, Sociolinguistics, Gender studies, gender groups, Sociology: work & labour, Sociology: work and labour, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General