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Applying findings and creating impact from conversation-analytic studies of gender and communication
Studies of workplaces frequently focus on gender, investigating and challenging inequality. In that many studies start with ‘gender’ as a taken-for-granted category, measuring gender differences in organizational life, or interviewing participants to elicit accounts of their employment experiences,...
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| author | Elizabeth Stokoe |
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| description | Studies of workplaces frequently focus on gender, investigating and challenging inequality. In that many studies start with ‘gender’ as a taken-for-granted category, measuring gender differences in organizational life, or interviewing participants to elicit accounts of their employment experiences, they exaggerate and even create stereotypical ‘common knowledge’ about gender. In contrast, this paper illustrates a conversation analytic approach which can show if, when, and how, gender becomes consequentially relevant within any given communicative encounter. Drawing on a large corpus of institutional interaction, the paper demonstrates two things: that (1) robust claims about the gendering of social life can be made once those claims are grounded in what people actually do; and (2) systematic patterns in people’s endogenous orientations to gender can be found in communication. Finally, the paper showcases a real-world application of conversation analytic work, demonstrating the impact and relevance of such research programmes for understanding everyday gendered social life. |
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| spelling | rr-article-94753192013-01-01T00:00:00Z Applying findings and creating impact from conversation-analytic studies of gender and communication Elizabeth Stokoe (1254378) Sociology not elsewhere classified Other human society not elsewhere classified Other language, communication and culture not elsewhere classified Conversation analysis Gender Workplaces Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified Sociology Studies of workplaces frequently focus on gender, investigating and challenging inequality. In that many studies start with ‘gender’ as a taken-for-granted category, measuring gender differences in organizational life, or interviewing participants to elicit accounts of their employment experiences, they exaggerate and even create stereotypical ‘common knowledge’ about gender. In contrast, this paper illustrates a conversation analytic approach which can show if, when, and how, gender becomes consequentially relevant within any given communicative encounter. Drawing on a large corpus of institutional interaction, the paper demonstrates two things: that (1) robust claims about the gendering of social life can be made once those claims are grounded in what people actually do; and (2) systematic patterns in people’s endogenous orientations to gender can be found in communication. Finally, the paper showcases a real-world application of conversation analytic work, demonstrating the impact and relevance of such research programmes for understanding everyday gendered social life. 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z Text Journal contribution 2134/15515 https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Applying_findings_and_creating_impact_from_conversation-analytic_studies_of_gender_and_communication/9475319 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 |
| spellingShingle | Sociology not elsewhere classified Other human society not elsewhere classified Other language, communication and culture not elsewhere classified Conversation analysis Gender Workplaces Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified Sociology Elizabeth Stokoe Applying findings and creating impact from conversation-analytic studies of gender and communication |
| title | Applying findings and creating impact from conversation-analytic studies of gender and communication |
| title_full | Applying findings and creating impact from conversation-analytic studies of gender and communication |
| title_fullStr | Applying findings and creating impact from conversation-analytic studies of gender and communication |
| title_full_unstemmed | Applying findings and creating impact from conversation-analytic studies of gender and communication |
| title_short | Applying findings and creating impact from conversation-analytic studies of gender and communication |
| title_sort | applying findings and creating impact from conversation-analytic studies of gender and communication |
| topic | Sociology not elsewhere classified Other human society not elsewhere classified Other language, communication and culture not elsewhere classified Conversation analysis Gender Workplaces Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified Sociology |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/2134/15515 |