Leadership, discourse, and ethnicity

This is the first book in the field of workplace discourse to examine the relationships among leadership, ethnicity, and language use. 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 approachto 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 authorsanalyse 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 whichare Maori and two European/Pakeha. Their analysis pays special attention tothe roles of ethnic values, beliefs and orientations in talk. INDICE: Acknowledgements Tables and Figures Leadership, Discourse and Ethnicity Collecting the Data Constructing Leadership Through Language Business Meetings Relational Talk at Work Co-leadership Maori Leadership at Work Learningfrom Intercultural Research Transcription Conventions Glossary References

• ISBN: 978-0-19-973075-9
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 216
• Fecha Publicación: 12/01/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés