Globalisation, Geopolitics, and Gender in Professional Communication

Louise Mullany is Professor of Sociolinguistics at the University of Nottingham, UK. She specialises in investigations of language, gender and equality in professional settings in global contexts, including businesses, politics, healthcare and the mass media. She has published books, numerous articles and book chapters in these areas.Stephanie Schnurr is Professor in Sociolinguistics at the University of Warwick, UK. She has published widely on various aspects of leadership discourse and gender in different professional contexts. Stephanie is the author of Leadership Discourse at Work (2009, Palgrave), Exploring Professional Communication (2013, Routledge), and the co-author of Language and Culture at Work (2017, Routledge) and The Language of Leadership Narratives (2020, Routledge).

• List of contributorsAcknowledgementsChapter 1. Globalisation, Geopolitics and Gender: Key Issues for Professional Communication. Louise Mullany & Stephanie SchnurrChapter 2. “A financially independent woman is a gift to any nation”. Exploring the sociolinguistics of family and work in leadership stories around the worldStephanie SchnurrChapter 3. Narratives of identity and gendered leadership in East African workplaces: Intersectionality, global development goals and challenging boundariesLouise Mullany & Peter Masibo LumalaChapter 4. “Gender equality discourse is the glass ceiling we hit here”. Women’s academic leadership narratives in a gender-sensitive university context in TurkeyHale Işık-Güler & Yasemin Erdoğan-ÖztürkChapter 5. Women’s Empowerment, employment and exclusion. Discourses in economic competitiveness initiatives in MalaysiaMelissa YoongChapter 6. A reversed gender bias? Exploring intersectional identity work by Belgian women with a Turkish or Moroccan migration backgroundCatho Jacobs, Dorien van De Mieroop & Colette van LarChapter 7. The battle heads underground. Unrecognised bias in everyday workplace talkJanet Holmes & Meredith MarraChapter 8. “It doesn’t matter if you’re female or male it’s the same thing.” Re-gendering the notion of work in agile workplaces in Switzerland, the UK and the USAJoelle LoewChapter 9. Performing discipline in UK primary school classrooms. Challenging essentialist beliefs about teacher genderJoanne McDowellChapter 10. Gender, politics and national identity stereotypes. Constructing legitimate professional identities in the UK House of LordsVictoria HowardChapter 11. Epilogue. Geopolitical lenses (and mirrors) in workplace language research Brian KingIndex