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The Discourse of Business Meetings

Agency and Power in Financial Organizations

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Authors:
  1. Fatma M. AlHaidari

    1. Public Authority for Applied Education and Training, Kuwait City, Kuwait

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  • Develops a sociolinguistic theoretical perspective on the business event of meeting

  • Advising how companies would benefit from hiring language and communication professionals to evaluate the way staff members communicate together in meetings

  • Identifies the importance of examining agency and power in facilitating the flow of communication in business meetings

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Fatma M. AlHaidari
    Pages 1-17

  3. Business Discourse and Organizational Business Meetings Across Disciplines

    • Fatma M. AlHaidari
    Pages 19-51

  4. Fieldwork in Organizations

    • Fatma M. AlHaidari
    Pages 53-73

  5. An Integrated Analytical Framework for Interpreting the Meeting Data

    • Fatma M. AlHaidari
    Pages 75-80

  6. Analyzing Innovative Kuwait Co. Meeting Data

    • Fatma M. AlHaidari
    Pages 81-113

  7. Analyzing Global Phoenix Meeting Data

    • Fatma M. AlHaidari
    Pages 115-133

  8. Compare and Contrast

    • Fatma M. AlHaidari
    Pages 135-185

  9. Conclusion and Future Directions in Business Discourse

    • Fatma M. AlHaidari
    Pages 187-211

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 213-219
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About this book

This book examines the social organizational discourse of task-oriented business meetings in a Kuwaiti financial organization and an American non-profit trade organisation. Focusing primarily on the linguistic behaviours demonstrating agency and power of managers and staff members displayed during these meetings, the project is based on ethnographic data collected during eight months of fieldwork. The author examines the similarities and differences between the linguistic behaviours of both organizations, particularly relating to the production of collective “we,” “us,” and “our” utterances and directive speech acts issued to explore how managers and co-workers perform agency and power in meetings. This distinctive book will shed light into the influence of language on the actions and relationships of managers and co-workers in business meetings, and will be of interest to applied linguists and discourse analysts in the field of business discourse in addition to business professionals in management and finance.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Public Authority for Applied Education and Training, Kuwait City, Kuwait

    Fatma M. AlHaidari

About the author

Fatma M. AlHaidari is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the Public Authority for Applied Education and Training, Kuwait. Her research interests include sociolinguistics, language and gender, and the discourse of business meetings.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Discourse of Business Meetings

  • Book Subtitle: Agency and Power in Financial Organizations

  • Authors: Fatma M. AlHaidari

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66143-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-66142-1Published: 04 December 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88187-4Published: 01 September 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-66143-8Published: 22 November 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 219

  • Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Discourse Analysis, Corporate Communication/Public Relations, Language and Gender

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