Globalisation, Geopolitics, and Gender in Professional Communication

• Main Authors: Stephanie Schnurr, Louise Mullany
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 2023; Knowledge Unlatched GmbH; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis; ROUTLEDGE
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Research in Applied Professional Communication
• Subjects: Applied Linguistics; Digital Communication; Discourse Analysis; Gender Studies - Soc Sci; Globalisation; Language and Communication; Language and Culture; Language and Gender; Language and Linguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language: reference and general; Linguistics; Professional Communication; Sociolinguistics; TEDx Talks; gender; Kia Ora; Social Reproduction; interactional sociolinguistics; UK Setting; UK's House; Indra Nooyi; Migration Roots; discourse analysis; Young Men; Louise Mullany; feminist critical discourse analysis; Compound Category; Neoliberal Feminism; gender discrimination in the workplace; globalisation; Feminist Geopolitics; NGO Leader; UK Primary School; globalization; gendered stereotypes; UK Parliament; Everyday Workplace Interaction; Stem Occupation; Geopolitical Contexts; Limiting Gender Norms; Geopolitical Lens; language in the workplace; professional communication; workplace communication; Migration Background; MDWs; geopolitics; Agile Ways; language and gender; pragmatics; Stephanie Schnurr; gendered language; Ja Ja
• ISBN: 0367748126; 9781032347790; 1032347791; 9780367748128; 9781003159674; 1003159672
• DOI: 10.4324/9781003159674

This edited collection investigates the linguistics of globalisation, geopolitics and gender in workplace cultures in a range of different contemporary international settings. The chapters examine how issues of globalisation, gender and geopolitics affect professionals in different workplace contexts, including domestic workers; IT professionals; teachers, university staff; engineers; entrepreneurs; CEOs of different corporates including locally based businesses as well as multinationals; farmers; co-operative leaders; NGO leaders; bloggers; healthcare assistants and caregivers. Taking different sociolinguistic approaches to exploring language and the geopolitics of gender at work in Dubai, Kuwait, Kenya, Uganda, Morocco, Nigeria, Malaysia, Turkey, Belgium, Switzerland, New Zealand, Uganda, the UK and the USA, each chapter focuses on a range of salient geopolitical issues which often have global applicability, but which may also be subject to more localised socio-cultural variation. The chapters critically discuss issues of gendered language, perceptions and representations of workplace cultures, discrimination, the role of gendered stereotyping and deeply ingrained socio-cultural myths about gender and the importance of examining the intersections of identity – all of which continue to persist as barriers to equality and inclusion in workplaces worldwide. Despite the variation and diversity in professions and geopolitical contexts captured across the chapters, remarkably similar issues of gender discrimination and persisting inequalities are identified and critically discussed, thus pointing to the global nature of these issues.