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The Language of Female Leadership

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  • © 2010

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  1. Judith Baxter

    1. Aston University, UK

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Leading Talk

    • Judith Baxter
    Pages 1-22

  3. Speaking in the Male-Dominated Corporation

    • Judith Baxter
    Pages 23-50

  4. Speaking in the Gender-Divided Corporation

    • Judith Baxter
    Pages 51-75

  5. Speaking in the Gender-Multiple Corporation

    • Judith Baxter
    Pages 76-100

  6. Case Study 1: Linguistic Work in the Corporation

    • Judith Baxter
    Pages 101-115

  7. Case Study 2: Language of Female Leadership in Action

    • Judith Baxter
    Pages 116-146

  8. How to Achieve an Effective Language of Leadership

    • Judith Baxter
    Pages 147-163

  9. The Linguistic Landscape of Female Leadership

    • Judith Baxter
    Pages 164-175

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 176-192
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Could language be a reason why women are under-represented at senior level in the business world? Using data from senior management meetings, this book explores how female leaders use language to achieve their business and relational goals by arguing that senior women have to develop linguistic expertise in order to be effective leaders.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Aston University, UK

    Judith Baxter

About the author

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 Positioning Gender in Discourse: A Feminist Methodology (Palgrave, 2003) and editor of Speaking Out: The Female Voice in Public Contexts (Palgrave 2006). She recently won an ESRC grant to research the subject of gender and leadership discourse.

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