Publications

Publication details [#39128]

Holmes, Janet and Meredith Marra. 2004. Relational practice in the workplace: Women's talk or gendered discourse? Language in Society 33 (3) : 377–398.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

gender | women's language | workplace conversation

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study identifies various ways in which people do relational practice in New Zealand workplace conversation and critically investigate the proposal that relational practice, as subtle support work, is regarded as “women's work.”