Publications

Publication details [#44287]

Mullany, Louise. 2006. "Girls on tour": Politeness, small talk, and gender in managerial business meetings. Journal of Politeness Research 2 (1) : 55–77.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

gender | meeting | politeness | small talk | workplace conversation

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/JPLR/html

Annotation

This paper critically explores recent theoretical developments in the field of language, gender and politeness, and investigates female small talk as linguistic politeness strategy in managerial meetings.