Discourse in the Workplace

Holmes, Janet

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“…As the research aims to investigate the use of an inclusive language and the best way to foster equality and diversity, a ground discourse analysis of the Corpus has been deemed as fundamental to understand the different aspects of the language use and the discourse itself (Gee, 2011 All the above-mentioned elements make this research unique, both from a linguistic point of view than from a sociological one. This study relies on similar research, in fact, different studies have been conducted in the past about workplace discourse (Alvesson & Karreman, 2000;Grant & Iedema, 2004;Rodríguez, 2006;Cotter & Marschall, 2006;Bréda, Delattre, & Ocler, 2008;Koester, 2010;Tatli, 2011;Kärreman, 2014;Holmes, 2015;Manuti & Minnini, 2015;Mayr, 2015). All of them have contributed to set the ground of this research, and in particular of the chapter related to the discourse analysis of the EU HRM Legal Corpus, although none of these studies particularly focused on the language used in the EU Institutional context or on the contextual value setting of equality and diversity.…”

Section: Methodological Approachmentioning

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“…Another important element of this study is the issue of the EU Civil Servants' identity building. To support the corpus analysis in such field different studies have been taken into consideration, in particular, those related to the development of participants' identities in a multilingual and multicultural setting (Edwards, 2009;Cenoz, 2013;Holmes, 2015;Searle, 2015).…”

Section: Methodological Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Franca and the EU Civil Servants' identity building vis-s-vis their work for the EU Institutions (Searle, 1995;Cotter & Marschall, 2006;Bréda, Delattre & Ocler, 2008;Cenoz, 2013;Holmes, 2015). With regard to the choice of the corpus analysis tool, different options are currently available on the market.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…It is particularly important to strive for a better wording in such sense. Although the caveat is specified at the beginning of the Staff Regulation, in many instances provisions such as "he is promoted" can be encountered, which do not foster the idea behind gender equality and contribute to a distorted identity building of Staff Members working for the Institutions (Holmes, 2015;Searle, 2015). This issue is of particular importance to overcome the concept of male as a "null gender", as assuming that the default and standard gender is male and not female contributes to reinforcing the typical gender stereotypes (Fuertes-Olivera, 2007;Wagner, Garcia, Jadidi & Strohmaier, 2015).…”

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“…To analyse the discourse used in the EU HRM Legal Corpus, as highlighted in the methodological approach of this research, this dissertation touches upon different features proposed by several aforementioned studies, but in particular, it takes into account aspects related to discourse in the workplace (Bhatia, 1993;Grant & Iedema, 2004;Danson, Green & McQuaid, 2005;Cotter & Marschall, 2006;Rodríguez, 2006;Mayr, 2008 andShena, Chandaa, D'Nettob & Mongaa, 2009;Koester, 2010;ten Thije & Maier, 2012;Kärreman, 2014;Jackson, 2014;Holmes, 2015). Furthermore, the analysis of the discourse of the EU HRM Legal Corpus will be based on some research related to the discourse on equality and diversity (Holmes & Meyerhoff, 2003;Hummert, Garstka, Ryan, & Bonnesen, 2004;Baker, 2005 andAhmed, 2007;Mautner, 2007;Harrington, Litosseliti, Sauntson & Sunderland, 2008;Goddard & Mean, 2009 (Bhatia, 1993).…”

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, for her valuable guidance and support in writing this dissertation. To my family, and in particular to Paolo, for his support in helping make my dream come true. To my daughters, who did not fail to inspire me every single day of our life together, giving me a reason to become a better me and pursue my doctoral studies. To Claudia Lucia Mejia de la Pava, for her continuous support, for the participation to our "consejos de guerra" and for making this doctoral studies a beautiful journey into Friendship. A special thanks to my friends and colleagues who work for the European Institutions all over Europe (and beyond!), and in particular to those who participated to the EU HRM Legal Framework questionnaire: without their valuable inputs, this research would not be meaningful. And finally, a special thank, which will hopefully break the wall of time and space, to Professor Angelina Desiderio: if it were not for her and the love for culture and research as she taught me, I would not be who I am today. And as the adage goes, all the errors, omissions, mistakes, limitations that may arise from this dissertation are mine and only mine.

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The Language of M—A Female Manager (as Played by Judi Dench)

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#workfromhome: how multi-level marketers enact and subvert federal language policy for profit

Fluegel

King

2021

Lang Policy

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This paper analyzes how multi-level marketing companies (MLMs), via direct selling through electronic commerce (e-commerce) and social media, enact and evade federal language policy to maximize profits. Here we describe the federal language policies that govern this type of e-commerce, and in particular, the language policies of the Federal Trade Commission, which dictate what can and cannot be communicated by MLM companies and their contractors. We then illustrate how these federal language policies are enacted, and at times subverted, for financial gain during the COVID-19 economic and health crisis which rendered many people vulnerable. We draw on the discourse analysis of public documents, MLM insider sources via the first author, and over 100,000 public Instagram posts published by MLM independent contractors collected with the third-party Instagram data extraction tool, Phantombuster. We find that MLM independent contractors, although varying widely with respect to their enactment of federal and corporate policy, frequently reference COVID-19 implicitly or explicitly, a practice prohibited by federal policy. We demonstrate that quantitative and qualitative discourse analysis of language policies and practices of MLM social media provides a productive lens for understanding both the communication challenges of and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. This approach reveals the variable ways in which language policies are taken up and discourses recontextualized with new meanings and for new purposes across social media platforms.

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Discourse in the Workplace

Cited by 11 publications

References 59 publications

Fostering equality and diversity inside the Institutions of the European Union: a linguistic analysis of their human resources legal framework

Fostering equality and diversity inside the Institutions of the European Union: a linguistic analysis of their human resources legal framework

The Language of M—A Female Manager (as Played by Judi Dench)

#workfromhome: how multi-level marketers enact and subvert federal language policy for profit

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