Gendered Talk at Work

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Gendered Talk at Work examines how women and men negotiatetheir gender identities as well as their professional roles ineveryday workplace communication. * written accessibly by one of the field's foremostresearchers * explores the ways in which gender contributes to theinterpretation of meaning in workplace interaction * uses original and insightfully analyzed data to focus on theways in which both women and men draw on gendered discourseresources to enact a range of workplace roles * illustrates how a qualitative analysis of workplace discoursecan throw light on the many ways in which workplace discourseprovides a resource for constructing gender identity as onecomponent of our complex socio-cultural identity

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Janet Holmes

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"Gendered Talk at Work offers rich empirical texture tosupport subtle and careful analysis of gender in workplace talk.Janet Holmes's highly readable yet theoreticallysophisticated book will be required reading not just forsociolinguists but for everyone interested in promoting genderequity in employment." Sally McConnell-Ginet, CornellUniversity "A particular strength of this book is its accessibility tonon-linguists: it will assist women and men in the workplace togain a more sophisticated understanding of how gender interactswith power in producing different ways of speaking." AnnePauwels, The University of Western Australia "Janet Holmes's account of gender and workplace discourserepresents sociolinguistic scholarship at its best. Her detailedand wide-ranging analysis of language in interaction providesunique insights into the linguistic culture of the workplace andchallenges stereotypical conceptions of gendered speaking styles- an invaluable resource." Joan Swann, The OpenUniversity "Holmes's text is a well-written accessible book that not onlygives the reader an understanding of much of the work on genderedworkplace talk but advances with equal clarity into Holmes's ownsubtle and nuanced additions to the field." Discourse &Communication
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