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Publication details [#55153]

Chan, Angela and Stephanie Schnurr. 2011. Exploring another side of co-leadership: Negotiating professional identities through face-work in disagreements. Language in Society 40 (2) : 187–209.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

disagreeing | face maintenance | identity negotiation | workplace conversation

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

Drawing on discourse data from two Hong Kong workplaces, this study uses the analytical face and identity concepts to distinguish and delineate some of the complex processes via which co-leadership is established. There is a particular emphasis on situations in which co-leadership team members disagree.