 Gendered Talk at Work: Constructing Gender Identity Through Workplace Discourse
ISBN: 978-1-4051-1759-3
Paperback
264 pages
July 2006, Wiley-Blackwell
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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
* 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
