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Gendered Talk at Work: Constructing Gender Identity Through Workplace Discourse (Language and Social Change)
Gendered Talk at Work Constructing Gender Identity Through Workplace Discourse - Language and Social Change Author:Janet Holmes 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 an... more »d 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« less