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Leadership Discourse at Work

Interactions of Humour, Gender and Workplace Culture

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  • © 2009

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Authors:
  1. Stephanie Schnurr

    1. University of Hong Kong, China

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Stephanie Schnurr
    Pages 1-25

  3. Transactional Aspects of Leadership Discourse: Humour and Getting Things Done

    • Stephanie Schnurr
    Pages 26-41

  4. The ‘Other’ Side of Leadership Discourse: Humour and the Performance of Relational Leadership Activities

    • Stephanie Schnurr
    Pages 42-60

  5. Doing Leadership in Context: The Impact of Working Groups

    • Stephanie Schnurr
    Pages 61-78

  6. Leadership, Humour and Workplace Culture

    • Stephanie Schnurr
    Pages 79-103

  7. Balancing Leader and Gender Identities

    • Stephanie Schnurr
    Pages 104-129

  8. Conclusion

    • Stephanie Schnurr
    Pages 130-137

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 138-161
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About this book

Employing a discourse analytical approach this book focuses on the under-researched strategy of humour to illustrate how discursive performances of leadership are influenced by gender and workplace culture. Far from being a superfluous strategy that distracts from business, humour performs a myriad of important functions in the workplace context.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Hong Kong, China

    Stephanie Schnurr

About the author

STEPHANIE SCHNURR is Assistant Professor at the School of English at the University of Hong Kong. Her main research interest is the sociolinguistic and discursive performance of leadership and gender at work, and in particular the multiple functions and strategic uses of humour in workplace discourse.
 

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