Gendered Talk at Work: Constructing Gender Identity Through Workplace DiscourseISBN: 978-1-4051-1759-3
Paperback
264 pages
June 2006, Wiley-Blackwell
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- 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
- examines how women and men negotiate their gender identities as
well as their professional roles in everyday workplace
communication
- 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