Gendered Talk at Work: Constructing Gender Identity Through Workplace Discourse
Book Details
Author(s)
Janet Holmes
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN / ASIN
1405117591
ISBN-13
9781405117593
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Sales Rank
#3,087,027
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
