Publications

Publication details [#32333]

Ostermann, Ana Christina. 2003. Communities of Practice at Work: Gender, Facework and the Power of Habitus at an All-Female Police Station and a Feminist Crisis Intervention Center in Brazil. Discourse & Society 14 (4) : 473–506.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse analysis | gender | politeness | workplace conversation

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

ISBN

0957-9265

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper examines discursive practices and their relations to gender, facework and workplace in two all-female institutions -an all-female police station and a feminist crisis intervention center- that deal with violence against women in Brazil.