Publisher 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 ofethnicity. 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 incontrasting "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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

AcknowledgementsTables and Figures1.: Leadership, Discourse and Ethnicity2.: Collecting the Data3.: Constructing Leadership Through Language4.: Business Meetings5.: Relational Talk at Work6.: Co-leadership7.: Maori Leadership at Work8.: Learning from Intercultural ResearchTranscription ConventionsGlossaryReferences

Review

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 *

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The first book in the field of workplace discourse to examine the relationships among leadership, ethnicity, and language use

Long 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.

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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.

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Selling point: Takes a unique approach by focusing on workplace discourse within "ethnicized" contexts
Selling point: Examines interactions in Maori and European/Pakeha

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