Judith Baxter
Biographic Data
| ID | 3827644 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Judith Baxter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Judith |
| FAMILY NAME | Baxter |
| SIGNATURE | BAXTER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Reading |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 76 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Keep strong, remember everything you have learnt’
This article analyses the linguistic and multimodal interactions of a group of seven cancer patients and two carers, who had previously met on a residential course and subsequently set up an online support group. I explore how this group of participants constructs relationships of support and solidarity online over 7 months using a range of multimodal resources including web links, video clips, avatars and songs. This is a semi-ethnographic case …
‘Your situation is critical…’
Women remain in a small minority as business leaders in both Middle Eastern (ME) and Western European (WE) regions, and indeed, past research indicates that ME women face even greater challenges as leaders than their Western counterparts. This article explores sample findings from two separate case studies, the first of a ME woman leader and the second of a WE woman leader, each conducting a management meeting with their teams. Using interactiona…
Feminist Research
Feminist research emerged across the social sciences to “give voice” to women's activities, lived experiences, and perspectives, a mission which had been conspicuously missing in mainstream research.
Women of the corporation
This paper reconceptualises a classic theory (Kanter 1993[1977]) on gender and leadership in order to provide fresh insights for both sociolinguistic and management thinking. Kanter claimed that there are four approved 'role traps' for women leaders in male-dominated organisations: Mother, Pet, Seductress and Iron Maiden, based on familiar historical archetypes of women in power. This paper reinterprets Kanter's construct of role traps in socioli…
Outside in-group and out-group identities? Constructing male solidarity and female exclusion in UK builders' talk
This article examines the spoken interactions of a group of British construction workers to discover whether it is possible to identify a distinctive `builders' discourse'. Given that builders work for a mostly all-male profession (Curjao, 2006), we ask whether the ways in which male builders converse with each other while `on the job' can be held in any way responsible for the under-representation of women within this major occupational sector i…
Is it all tough talking at the top
This paper uses a feminist post-structuralist approach to examine the gendered identities of a sample of British business leaders in Britain. While recent national surveys offer many material reasons why women are acutely under-represented as business leaders, the role of language is rarely addressed. This paper explores the ways in which ten senior women and men construct their sense of leadership identities through the medium of interview narra…
Speaking Out
Focusing on the female voice in public contexts, language and gender specialists consider the barriers and opportunities encountered by women in gaining recognition in politics, law, the church, educa
Positioning Gender in Discourse
Feminist Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis helps analyse how speakers construct their gendered identities within a complex web of power relations. Demonstrated here through a study of teenagers' co
Competing discourses in the classroom
This article responds to Billig's (2000) call for new forms of writing that might challenge the `linguistic orthodoxies' of the critical paradigm. It also responds to Van Dijk's appeal in this journal for more examination of the differences between Conversational Analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis. It argues that Post-structuralist Discourse Analysis (PDA) 1 offers an alternative account of spoken interactions to those of CA and CDA, in tha…
Is PDA really an alternative? A reply to West
A Juggling Act
Relatively few models of good practice in feminist post-structuralist discourse analysis exist in current educational research. Drawing on a study of girls' and boys' speech in a secondary, mixed-sex classroom, the article aims to show that the use of feminist post-structuralist analysis can often be a tricky juggling act. On one hand, it aims to show the complexity of how girls are multiply positioned by competing classroom discourses as at time…
The Success Project
Objectives. This study examined the effect of program format and incentives on participation and cessation in worksite smoking cessation programs. Methods. Twenty-four worksites were randomized to 6 conditions that differed in cessation program format and the use of incentives. Programs were offered for 18 months in each worksite. A total of 2402 cigarette smokers identified at baseline were surveyed 12 and 24 months later to assess participation…
Social Network Factors Associated with Perceived Quality of Life
Demographic and social network factors associations with perceived quality of life (PQOL) were examined in a sample of rural Hispanic and non-Hispanic White (NHW) elderly. A 20-item PQOL scale measured participants' satisfaction with multiple facets of their lives. Age, gender, marital status, and living alone were not associated with this outcome. Hispanic persons with higher incomes had consistently higher ratings of quality of life compared to…
The Healthy Worker Project
OBJECTIVES. A randomized trial was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of a work-site health promotion program in reducing obesity and the prevalence of cigarette smoking. METHODS. Thirty-two work sites were randomized to treatment or no treatment for 2 years. Treatment consisted of health education classes combined with a payroll-based incentive system. Evaluation was based on cohort and cross-sectional surveys. RESULTS. Of 10,000 total empl…
Competing discourses in the classroom
This article responds to Billig's (2000) call for new forms of writing that might challenge the `linguistic orthodoxies' of the critical paradigm. It also responds to Van Dijk's appeal in this journal for more examination of the differences between Conversational Analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis. It argues that Post-structuralist Discourse Analysis (PDA) 1 offers an alternative account of spoken interactions to those of CA and CDA, in tha…
Outside in-group and out-group identities? Constructing male solidarity and female exclusion in UK builders' talk
This article examines the spoken interactions of a group of British construction workers to discover whether it is possible to identify a distinctive `builders' discourse'. Given that builders work for a mostly all-male profession (Curjao, 2006), we ask whether the ways in which male builders converse with each other while `on the job' can be held in any way responsible for the under-representation of women within this major occupational sector i…
A Juggling Act
Relatively few models of good practice in feminist post-structuralist discourse analysis exist in current educational research. Drawing on a study of girls' and boys' speech in a secondary, mixed-sex classroom, the article aims to show that the use of feminist post-structuralist analysis can often be a tricky juggling act. On one hand, it aims to show the complexity of how girls are multiply positioned by competing classroom discourses as at time…
The Healthy Worker Project
OBJECTIVES. A randomized trial was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of a work-site health promotion program in reducing obesity and the prevalence of cigarette smoking. METHODS. Thirty-two work sites were randomized to treatment or no treatment for 2 years. Treatment consisted of health education classes combined with a payroll-based incentive system. Evaluation was based on cohort and cross-sectional surveys. RESULTS. Of 10,000 total empl…
Women of the corporation
This paper reconceptualises a classic theory (Kanter 1993[1977]) on gender and leadership in order to provide fresh insights for both sociolinguistic and management thinking. Kanter claimed that there are four approved 'role traps' for women leaders in male-dominated organisations: Mother, Pet, Seductress and Iron Maiden, based on familiar historical archetypes of women in power. This paper reinterprets Kanter's construct of role traps in socioli…
Keep strong, remember everything you have learnt’
This article analyses the linguistic and multimodal interactions of a group of seven cancer patients and two carers, who had previously met on a residential course and subsequently set up an online support group. I explore how this group of participants constructs relationships of support and solidarity online over 7 months using a range of multimodal resources including web links, video clips, avatars and songs. This is a semi-ethnographic case …
Social Network Factors Associated with Perceived Quality of Life
Demographic and social network factors associations with perceived quality of life (PQOL) were examined in a sample of rural Hispanic and non-Hispanic White (NHW) elderly. A 20-item PQOL scale measured participants' satisfaction with multiple facets of their lives. Age, gender, marital status, and living alone were not associated with this outcome. Hispanic persons with higher incomes had consistently higher ratings of quality of life compared to…
Is PDA really an alternative? A reply to West
Is it all tough talking at the top
This paper uses a feminist post-structuralist approach to examine the gendered identities of a sample of British business leaders in Britain. While recent national surveys offer many material reasons why women are acutely under-represented as business leaders, the role of language is rarely addressed. This paper explores the ways in which ten senior women and men construct their sense of leadership identities through the medium of interview narra…
The Healthy Worker Project
OBJECTIVES. A randomized trial was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of a work-site health promotion program in reducing obesity and the prevalence of cigarette smoking. METHODS. Thirty-two work sites were randomized to treatment or no treatment for 2 years. Treatment consisted of health education classes combined with a payroll-based incentive system. Evaluation was based on cohort and cross-sectional surveys. RESULTS. Of 10,000 total empl…
Social Network Factors Associated with Perceived Quality of Life
Demographic and social network factors associations with perceived quality of life (PQOL) were examined in a sample of rural Hispanic and non-Hispanic White (NHW) elderly. A 20-item PQOL scale measured participants' satisfaction with multiple facets of their lives. Age, gender, marital status, and living alone were not associated with this outcome. Hispanic persons with higher incomes had consistently higher ratings of quality of life compared to…
Competing discourses in the classroom
This article responds to Billig's (2000) call for new forms of writing that might challenge the `linguistic orthodoxies' of the critical paradigm. It also responds to Van Dijk's appeal in this journal for more examination of the differences between Conversational Analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis. It argues that Post-structuralist Discourse Analysis (PDA) 1 offers an alternative account of spoken interactions to those of CA and CDA, in tha…
Is PDA really an alternative? A reply to West
A Juggling Act
Relatively few models of good practice in feminist post-structuralist discourse analysis exist in current educational research. Drawing on a study of girls' and boys' speech in a secondary, mixed-sex classroom, the article aims to show that the use of feminist post-structuralist analysis can often be a tricky juggling act. On one hand, it aims to show the complexity of how girls are multiply positioned by competing classroom discourses as at time…
The Success Project
Objectives. This study examined the effect of program format and incentives on participation and cessation in worksite smoking cessation programs. Methods. Twenty-four worksites were randomized to 6 conditions that differed in cessation program format and the use of incentives. Programs were offered for 18 months in each worksite. A total of 2402 cigarette smokers identified at baseline were surveyed 12 and 24 months later to assess participation…
Positioning Gender in Discourse
Feminist Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis helps analyse how speakers construct their gendered identities within a complex web of power relations. Demonstrated here through a study of teenagers' co
Speaking Out
Focusing on the female voice in public contexts, language and gender specialists consider the barriers and opportunities encountered by women in gaining recognition in politics, law, the church, educa
Is it all tough talking at the top
This paper uses a feminist post-structuralist approach to examine the gendered identities of a sample of British business leaders in Britain. While recent national surveys offer many material reasons why women are acutely under-represented as business leaders, the role of language is rarely addressed. This paper explores the ways in which ten senior women and men construct their sense of leadership identities through the medium of interview narra…
Outside in-group and out-group identities? Constructing male solidarity and female exclusion in UK builders' talk
This article examines the spoken interactions of a group of British construction workers to discover whether it is possible to identify a distinctive `builders' discourse'. Given that builders work for a mostly all-male profession (Curjao, 2006), we ask whether the ways in which male builders converse with each other while `on the job' can be held in any way responsible for the under-representation of women within this major occupational sector i…
Feminist Research
Feminist research emerged across the social sciences to “give voice” to women's activities, lived experiences, and perspectives, a mission which had been conspicuously missing in mainstream research.
Women of the corporation
This paper reconceptualises a classic theory (Kanter 1993[1977]) on gender and leadership in order to provide fresh insights for both sociolinguistic and management thinking. Kanter claimed that there are four approved 'role traps' for women leaders in male-dominated organisations: Mother, Pet, Seductress and Iron Maiden, based on familiar historical archetypes of women in power. This paper reinterprets Kanter's construct of role traps in socioli…
‘Your situation is critical…’
Women remain in a small minority as business leaders in both Middle Eastern (ME) and Western European (WE) regions, and indeed, past research indicates that ME women face even greater challenges as leaders than their Western counterparts. This article explores sample findings from two separate case studies, the first of a ME woman leader and the second of a WE woman leader, each conducting a management meeting with their teams. Using interactiona…
Keep strong, remember everything you have learnt’
This article analyses the linguistic and multimodal interactions of a group of seven cancer patients and two carers, who had previously met on a residential course and subsequently set up an online support group. I explore how this group of participants constructs relationships of support and solidarity online over 7 months using a range of multimodal resources including web links, video clips, avatars and songs. This is a semi-ethnographic case …
Sociology (12 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (8 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Discourse analysis (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)