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van de Mieroop, Dorien and Schnurr, Stephanie (2014) Negotiating meaning and constructing institutionalisable answers : leadership through gate-keeping in performance appraisal interviews. Journal of Pragmatics, Volume 67 . pp. 1-16. doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2014.03.008 ISSN 0378-2166.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2014.03.008
Abstract
Although the topic of leadership is increasingly becoming an area of interest for discourse analysts, most of the studies on leadership discourse focus on business meetings and largely ignore other institutional contexts. This paper aims to address this gap by exploring leadership discourse in another important but often neglected genre, namely the performance appraisal interview.
Drawing on naturally-occurring performance appraisal interviews recorded in a medical lab, we explore the particularly salient and (from a linguistic perspective) largely under-researched leadership activity of gate-keeping. This leadership activity is central to performance appraisal interviews and evolves around the conjoint negotiation of meaning and the co-construction of institutionalisable answers as they are ‘fixed’ by means of note taking.
Through an in-depth analysis of how these leadership activities are performed in three performance appraisal interviews, this paper contributes to an understanding of the complex processes through which leadership is actually enacted on the micro-level of interactions in this increasingly relevant genre of institutional discourse.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management | ||||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Leadership, Discourse analysis | ||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Pragmatics | ||||||||||
Publisher: | Elsevier BV | ||||||||||
ISSN: | 0378-2166 | ||||||||||
Official Date: | June 2014 | ||||||||||
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Volume: | Volume 67 | ||||||||||
Number of Pages: | 16 | ||||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 1-16 | ||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.pragma.2014.03.008 | ||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 29 December 2015 | ||||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 29 December 2015 |
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