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Gendered Talk at Work: Constructing Gender Identity Through Workplace Discourse
Janet Holmes
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Description for Gendered Talk at Work: Constructing Gender Identity Through Workplace Discourse
Hardcover. Gendered Talk at Work examines how women and men negotiate their gender identities as well as their professional roles in everyday workplace communication. Series: Language and Social Change. Num Pages: 264 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: CFB; JFSJ; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 164 x 20. Weight in Grams: 514.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Series
Language and Social Change
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781405117586
SKU
V9781405117586
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Janet Holmes
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).
Reviews for Gendered Talk at Work: Constructing Gender Identity Through Workplace Discourse
"Gendered Talk at Work offers rich empirical texture to support subtle and careful analysis of gender in workplace talk. Janet Holmes’s highly readable yet theoretically sophisticated book will be required reading not just for sociolinguists but for everyone interested in promoting gender equity in employment." Sally McConnell-Ginet, Cornell University "A particular strength of this book is its accessibility to ... Read more