The Language of Female Leadership
Published on 19. November 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
XII, 192 pages
978-1-349-54666-4 (ISBN)
Description
Could language be a reason why women are under-represented at senior level in the business world? Using data from senior management meetings, this book explores how female leaders use language to achieve their business and relational goals by arguing that senior women have to develop linguistic expertise in order to be effective leaders.
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Edition
1st ed. 2010
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
XII, 192 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
269 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-349-54666-4 (9781349546664)
DOI
10.1057/9780230277915
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J. Baxter
The Language of Female Leadership
Book
11/2009
Palgrave Macmillan
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Person
JUDITH BAXTER is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at Aston University, UK. Her research interests are in the fields of gender and language, discourse analysis, classroom language, leadership language, identity and feminist post-structuralism. She is the author of
Positioning Gender in Discourse: A Feminist Methodology
(Palgrave, 2003) and editor of
Speaking Out: The Female Voice in Public Contexts
(Palgrave 2006). She recently won an ESRC grant to research the subject of gender and leadership discourse.
Content
Leading Talk Is the Language of Leadership Male? Forget Mars and Venus! Speaking in the Gender-divided Corporation Speaking in the Gender-multiple Corporation A Leadership Voice for Women? Talking Your Way to the Top