Researching Language, Gender and Sexuality at Work

A Student Guide
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-58372-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm

Researching Language, Gender and Sexuality at Work offers an accessible guide to conducting linguistic research in gender, sexuality and work. Written with the learner in mind, it supports the reader through the research process and gives them the tools and confidence to carry out their own projects.

Each chapter focuses on one specific area of research, offering a good understanding of critical issues investigated by gender, sexuality and work scholars across different fields. Yoong sets out a clear and easy-to-follow structure, starting with real-life events and problems, followed by a review of significant and relevant literature from linguistics and beyond. Key theories and concepts from multiple disciplines are carefully unpacked and illustrated to show how they can help to frame, explain and illuminate the issues discussed. Methodologically diverse, each chapter introduces one or more analytical approaches and frameworks and what they can contribute to the study of specific workplace phenomena. Readers are offered a step-by-step guide on how to analyse written, spoken and visual texts systematically. Potential misconceptions are highlighted and clarified.

Divided into self-contained chapters for independent and flexible learning, this essential book is ideal for students of linguistics, sociolinguistics and other fields of study, such as media studies, sociology and organisation studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yoong, Melissa

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmenskultur, Corporate Governance

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introducing linguistic research on gender, sexuality and work. 2. Key concepts in researching language, gender and sexuality in professional life. 3. Language, gender, sexuality and leadership. 4. Gender and emotion in professional interaction. 5. Narratives of work and family. 6. Career advice for women. 7. Gender, sexuality and the communicative practices of social media influencers.

Über Autor(innen)

Melissa Yoong is Associate Professor of Sociolinguistics at the University of Nottingham Malaysia. She specialises in research investigating how language sustains and challenges gender inequalities in the workplace and other areas of life.