Gendered Talk at Work: Constructing Gender Identity Through Workplace Discourse (Language and Social Change)
Book Details
Author(s)
Janet Holmes
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN / ASIN
1405117583
ISBN-13
9781405117586
Availability
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Sales Rank
#8,312,101
Category
Language Arts & Disciplines
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
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Description
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
