Positioning Gender in Discourse

A Feminist Methodology
2003
ISBN: 978-0-230-55432-0
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 215 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 290 g

Feminist Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis helps analyse how speakers construct their gendered identities within a complex web of power relations. Demonstrated here through a study of teenagers' conversation in class and senior managers' discussions in business meetings, it challenges the view that females are disempowered in mixed-sex settings.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Baxter, J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction A Working Partnership? FPDA - A Supplementary Approach to Discourse Analysis? Getting to Grips with FPDA Developing an FPDA Approach: The Classroom Study The Classroom Study Developing an FPDA Approach: The Management Team Study The Management Team Study Why Choose To Use FPDA? Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Appendix 3 Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

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 (Palgrave 2010) and editor of (Palgrave 2006). She recently won an ESRC grant to research the subject of gender and leadership discourse.