Publications

Publication details [#42547]

Takano, Shoji. 2005. Re-examining linguistic power: strategic uses of directives by professional Japanese women in positions of authority and leadership. Journal of Pragmatics 37 (5) : 633–666.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

context | power | professional language | women's language | workplace conversation

Language as a subject

Japanese

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This study examines the dilemma of professional Japanese women in authority positions in choosing between powerful talk in accordance with their occupational status and culturally prescribed feminine speech. It is argued that co-constitutive relationships between language and context help to explain the manipulation of linguistic power in these cases.