Overview
- Explores the ways senior women leaders are variously enabled and constrained by their specific discursive and socio-cultural settings
- Uses Feminist Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis to focus on the language of specific women chairing and leading business meetings
- Makes visible the multiple and diverse ways in which women perform their leadership roles and identities within their distinctive communities of practice
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About the authors
Haleema Al A'ali is Assistant Professor at the University Of Bahrain, Kingdom of Bahrain. Her research focuses on sociolinguistics, language, gender and leadership, and language in the workplace.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Speaking as Women Leaders
Book Subtitle: Meetings in Middle Eastern and Western Contexts
Authors: Judith Baxter, Haleema Al A'ali
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50621-4
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-50620-7Published: 19 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-50621-4Published: 20 September 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 152
Topics: Sociolinguistics, Discourse Analysis, Communication Studies, Corporate Communication/Public Relations, Middle Eastern Culture