Gendered Talk at Work Constructing Gender Identity Through Workplace Discourse

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Synopsis

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

Book details

Series:
Language and Social Change (Book 3)
Author:
Janet Holmes
ISBN:
9781405178457
Related ISBNs:
9780470754863, 9781405117593, 9781405117586
Publisher:
Wiley
Pages:
264
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2019-12-30
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2008
Copyright by:
N/A 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Language Arts, Nonfiction