
Leadership, Discourse, and Ethnicity
Oxford University Press Inc
Published on 12. January 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
206 pages
978-0-19-973074-2 (ISBN)
Description
This is the first book in the field of workplace discourse to examine the relationships among leadership, ethnicity, and language use. Taking a social constructionist approach to the ways in which leadership is enacted through discourse, Leadership, Discourse, and Ethnicity problematizes the concept of ethnicity and demonstrates the importance of context-particularly the community of practice-in determining what counts as relevant in the analysis of ethnicity. The authors analyse everyday workplace interactions supplemented by interview data to examine the ways in which workplace leaders use language to achieve their transactional and relational goals in contrasting "ethnicized" contexts, two of which are Maori and two European/Pakeha. Their analysis pays special attention to the roles of ethnic values, beliefs and orientations in talk.
Reviews / Votes
This book will be of interest to any scholar of leadership discourse, but especially useful for graduate students embarking on any kind of research that will involve gathering interactional data in an authentic environment. * NICK WILSON, Journal of Sociolinguistics *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
4 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
322 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-973074-2 (9780199730742)
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Leadership, Discourse, and Ethnicity
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Persons
Janet Holmes is Professor of Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington.
Meredith Marra is Senior Lecturer, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington.
Bernadette Vine is Corpus Manager, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington.
Meredith Marra is Senior Lecturer, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington.
Bernadette Vine is Corpus Manager, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington.
Author
Professor of LinguisticsProfessor of Linguistics, Victoria University of Wellington
Senior LecturerSenior Lecturer, Victoria University Wellington
Corpus ManagerCorpus Manager, Victoria University Wellington
Content
Acknowledgements ; Tables and Figures ; 1. Leadership, Discourse and Ethnicity ; 2. Collecting the Data ; 3. Constructing Leadership Through Language ; 4. Business Meetings ; 5. Relational Talk at Work ; 6. Co-leadership ; 7. Maori Leadership at Work ; 8. Learning from Intercultural Research ; Transcription Conventions ; Glossary ; References