Gender, language and leadership in the workplace

Authors

Language, gender, leadership, workplaces

Louise Mullany introduces this special issue of Gender and Language: Gender, Language and Leadership in the Workplace.

Louise Mullany, University of Nottingham

Louise Mullany is Associate Professor of Sociolinguistics in the School of English Studies, University of Nottingham, UK. Her research focuses on sociolinguistic and pragmatic approaches to discourse and gender in professional and institutional contexts. She has conducted studies in business, medical and media settings. Publications include Gendered Discourse in the Professional Workplace (Palgrave, 2007), shortlisted for the IGALA book prize 2008, Introducing English Language (with P. Stockwell, Routledge, 2010) and Language, Gender and Feminism: Theory and Methodology (with S. Mills, Routledge 2011). She is currently working on her next monograph, The Sociolinguistics of Gender in Public Life (Palgrave 2012).