Gendered Talk at Work: Constructing Gender Identity Through Workplace Discourse

✍ Scribed by Janet Holmes

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 266
• Series: Language and Social Change
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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

✦ Table of Contents

Gendered Talk at Work: Constructing Social Identity Through Workplace Interaction......Page 5
Contents......Page 9
List of Figures......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 11
1 The Role of Gender in Workplace Talk......Page 15
2 Gender and Leadership Talk at Work......Page 46
3 Relational Practice – Not Just Women’s Work......Page 88
4 Humour in the Workplace – Not Just Men’s Play......Page 122
5 Contest, Challenge and Complaint – Gendered Discourse?......Page 154
6 Women and Men Telling Stories at Work......Page 188
7 Giving Women the Last Word......Page 222
Appendix: Transcription Conventions......Page 237
References......Page 238
Index......Page 261