Leadership, discourse and ethnicity /
Holmes, Janet, 1947-
Leadership, discourse and ethnicity / Janet Holmes, Meredith Marra, and Bernadette Vine. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2011. - x, 194 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Oxford studies in sociolinguistics . - Oxford studies in sociolinguistics. .
Janet Holmes is Professor of Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington.
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.
9780199730742 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0199730741 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2010054133
Communication in management.
Diversity in the workplace.
Leadership.
Sociolinguistics.
HD30.3 / .H65 2011
306.44
Leadership, discourse and ethnicity / Janet Holmes, Meredith Marra, and Bernadette Vine. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2011. - x, 194 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Oxford studies in sociolinguistics . - Oxford studies in sociolinguistics. .
Janet Holmes is Professor of Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington.
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.
9780199730742 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0199730741 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2010054133
Communication in management.
Diversity in the workplace.
Leadership.
Sociolinguistics.
HD30.3 / .H65 2011
306.44