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Record Nr.

UNINA9910143295303321

Autore

Holmes Janet <1947->

Titolo

Gendered talk at work : constructing gender identity through workplace interaction / / Janet Holmes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, Massachusetts ; ; Oxford, England ; ; Victoria, Australia : , : Blackwell Publishing, , 2006

©2006

ISBN

1-280-85094-9

9786610850945

0-470-79912-9

0-470-75486-9

1-4051-7845-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (266 p.)

Collana

Language and Social Change ; ; 2

Classificazione

ES 150

MS 3150

Disciplina

306.44

306.44082

Soggetti

Language and languages - Sex differences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Gendered Talk at Work: Constructing Social Identity Through Workplace Interaction; Contents; 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

Sommario/riassunto

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