Communicating Gendered Professional Identity: Competence, Cooperation, and Conflict in the Workplace

The Handbook of Language and Gender

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 528-549

  Thimm, Caja ^a   Koch, Sabine C ^b   Schey, Sabine ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Internet based communication; Professional identity; Social stratification; Work organization; Workforce

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948984269     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470756942.ch23     Document Type: Chapter

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