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 …

This paper takes the frequently lamented state of current leadership research in business
and organisational sciences as a starting point and argues for a more open and engaging …

Gail Fairhurst's book (2007) on discursive leadership is a highly welcome contribution to the
endeavor of establishing discourse analysis as a substantial approach to management …

Meetings are increasingly seen as sites where organizing and strategic change take place,
but the role of specific discursive strategies and related linguistic-pragmatic and …

This article examines two discursive events during a major reorganization at Health Canada
in 2000: a new leader's informal speech to senior managers and his first formal memo to …

Workplaces constitute important sites where individuals construct and negotiate their various
social identities. And one of the most crucial sites where this identity construction takes place …

Leadership-as-practice holds great promise for the re-theorisation of leadership in ways that
reflect the dynamics of ongoing practice in the day-to-day realities of organising. However, in …

Leadership Has been studied from many disciplinary perspectives, but sociolinguists have
not yet made a contribution to understanding how leaders use language in accomplishing …

This study aims to more fully understand leadership when it is understood as primarily
discursive in nature and coconstructed by those involved in interactions in which influence …

This article explores how leadership is done in a 'leaderless' team. Drawing on a corpus of
more than 120 hours of audio-recorded meetings of different interdisciplinary research …