Language, Gender, and Identities at Work - Couverture rigide

Loew, Joelle

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1032719133 ISBN 13 : 9781032719139

Editeur : Routledge, 2025

Synopsis

This book critically examines gender and professional communication in the IT industry, demonstrating the value of an applied linguistics perspective in better understanding the discourses and gendering of work in the field and more broadly. Drawing primarily from sociolinguistics research but also interdisciplinary lines of inquiry, Loew considers the discursive processes which contribute to the gendering of work in the IT industry.

The volume features discussions of gendered hierarchies and inequalities in the workplace and the ways in which ideologies around professional competency perpetuate stereotypes around gender in IT. The book features data from business interactions and interviews with IT professionals from Switzerland, the UK, and the US, with a focus on agile working, whose focus on regular open communication and reduced hierarchies offer opportunities to explore tensions between different gender ideologies. In engaging with these issues, Loew outlines ways forward for engaging with the theoretical, analytical, and methodological issues around the gendering of work without perpetuating binary notions of gender in professional settings.

This volume will be of interest to scholars working on language and gender, professional communication, business communication, and applied linguistics.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Joelle Loew is a Lecturer and Researcher in Applied Linguistics with a PhD from the University of Basel and editor-in-chief of HAZ Queer Magazine

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1032719133
• ISBN 13: 9781032719139
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 254
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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