The Language of Female Leadership - Rilegato

Baxter, Judith

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ISBN 10: 1403997888 ISBN 13: 9781403997883

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

Riassunto

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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Descrizione del libro:

Based on new research in the business world, this book argues that women leaders have to be language experts to survive the rigours of the boardroom, and to lead effectively at senior level

L'autore:

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.

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• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1403997888
• ISBN 13: 9781403997883
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 192