Stephanie Schnurr
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 94223 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Stephanie Schnurr |
| PRENOMES | Stephanie |
| SOBRENOME | Schnurr |
| ASSINATURA | SCHNURR S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5601-7491 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 55 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 310 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 54 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2002 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
‘That’s not a quirk of racism [. . .] – that’s a quirk of geography’
This article examines how place is discursively constructed as an agent in talk about the exclusion of ethnic minority players in Australian grassroots cricket. Drawing on 40 semi-structured interviews with players and other stakeholders, we combine thematic analysis with Critical Discourse Analysis to identify the linguistic strategies used to construct place(s). We show how references to places of different degrees of granularity – from very sp…
Supervising and Supporting Child Protection and Welfare Systems
Child protection and welfare systems wield significant authority to intervene in family life to safeguard children, yet such interventions can have complex, sometimes harmful, consequences for children, families and communities. Recent scholarship highlights that, despite their protective aims, these systems may reinforce systemic inequalities and, at times, fail to prevent harm due to organizational shortcomings or structural biases. In response…
Exploring the discursive and multimodal strategies of collective leadership in a professional football team
This article explores the discursive and multimodal strategies through which leadership is accomplished collectively among the coaches of a professional football team. We demonstrate the benefits of using a modified version of Drath and colleagues’ (2008) DAC ontology in sociolinguistic research, and we show what can be gained by conceptualising leadership as a process rather than a set of behaviours or traits associated with an individual in a s…
Exploring the intersection between collective and hierarchical leadership in online team meetings in Turkey
In this article, we explore the intersection between collective and hierarchical leadership in a software engineering company in Turkey. Drawing on 5 hours of video-recorded virtual team meeting interactions, we focus on decision-making processes as the team reports their progress. By employing Multimodal Conversation Analysis, we reveal the interactional dynamics among the project director, the official team leader and other participants in a so…
Expressing (distorted) dissent against the Party-state out of internalised racism on X
This article critically examines a troubling development in grassroots resistance to authoritarianism, which we term ‘distorted dissent’. Using the Great Translation Movement (GTM) as a case study, we explore how its coordinators mobilise affective claims to substantiate critiques of Chinese people’s national character, whilst leveraging X’s connective affordances to amplify their reach in the transnational digital sphere. Such affective claims s…
That’d be another crisis nearly avoided
The topic of humor (and laughter) in healthcare contexts has attracted considerable scholarly interest, especially in professional-patient communication. Yet much remains to be investigated about its forms and functions in backstage inter-professional interaction from a discourse analytical/pragmatic perspective. In this light, this paper explores the role of humor in interpersonal conflict management in hospital handover meetings with the aim of…
An ‘attractive alternative way of wielding power’? Revealing hidden gender ideologies in the portrayal of women Heads of State during the Covid-19 pandemic
This paper explores the gendered discourses of the – seemingly favourable – media coverage that certain Heads of State received for their handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Looking at media reports published in different English-speaking outlets in the US, the UK, India, Bangladesh, Singapore, New Zealand, Australia, and Ireland, and using multimodal feminist critical discourse analysis, we identify and describe strategies that on the surface app…
The Language of Inclusion and Exclusion in Sports
Inclusion and exclusion are important issues for sports teams and organisations. This book explores how language use patterns by athletes, coaches, sports fans, and the sports media can create or impede inclusion. Issues of in/exclusion in a range of sports and a variety of socio-cultural contexts are explored, raising important questions for practitioners about how to address matters of in/exclusion that are evident in everyday language use.
Negotiating identities in stories of anti-Chinese racism during the Covid-19 pandemic
Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, there has been an upsurge of anti-Chinese racism. This paper investigates the socio-pragmatic processes through which Chinese international students in Belgium discursively deal with othering processes in the stories they tell about racist incidents during semi-structured research interviews. These processes are closely linked to various identities which are sometimes projected upon them and often …
You Have to Be Adaptable, Obviously’
In spite of the increasing globalisation of the work domain and the mobilization of the workforce (Wong et al. 2007) only very little attention has been paid to the interplay between culture and professional identities in workplace contexts. This paper addresses this gap by exploring some of the ways through which professionals are required to construct and negotiate their various identities in increasingly multicultural contexts where notions of…
Exploring the processes of emergent leadership in a netball team
In line with recent developments in leadership research which conceptualise leadership as a discursive and collaborative process rather than a set of static attributes and characteristics displayed by individuals, this paper explores some of the discursive processes through which leadership emerges in a sports team. Drawing on over ten hours of naturally occurring interactions among the players of a women’s netball team in the UK, and applying th…
Offene Kinder- und Jugendarbeit in der Schweiz
The fallacy of discrete authentic leader behaviours
The concept of authentic leadership is increasingly the focus of much leadership scholarship, and many have called for a review of the basic assumptions that underpin it. Taking an interactional approach to authentic leadership (AL) and using naturally occurring workplace interaction as data, we seek to question two basic assumptions of AL scholarship, namely (1) that authentic leadership emanates from the atomized leader and (2) that there is a …
Narratives as social practice in organisational contexts
Organizational studies, as a discipline, has displayed a strong interest in the use of narrative analysis to investigate issues of concern to scholars, such as those around sense-making, communication, politics and power, learning and change, as well as identity and identification However, much, though of course not all, of this research has tended to focus on 'big' storiesi.e., "those derived from interviews, clinical encounters, autobiographica…
Leadership in interaction. An introduction to the Special Issue
Participation of Children and Parents in the Swiss Child Protection System in the Past and Present
As in other European countries, the Swiss child protection system has gone through substantial changes in the course of the 20th century up to today. Increasingly, the needs as well as the participation of children and parents affected by child protection interventions have become a central concern. In Switzerland, critical debates around care-related detention of children and adults until 1981 have led to the launch of the National Research Prog…
It's not acceptable for the husband to stay at home
This article illustrates some of the ways in which the notion of (paid) work is actively being gendered, and how these gendering processes take place not only through organizational practices but also in discourses that circulate outside an organization in the private domain. Drawing on 15 in‐depth interviews with women who opted out of their own professional career in order to accompany their husbands on their overseas work assignment to Hong Ko…
That match was "a bit like losing your virginity". Failed humour, face and identity construction in TV interviews with professional athletes and coaches
Partizipation
Leadership special issue on leadership-in-interaction
A critical reflection of current trends in discourse analytical research on leadership across disciplines. A call for a more engaging dialogue
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 dialogue with leadership researchers in applied linguistics and pragmatics. Focusing on current debates around terminological issues and methodological questions that are particularly prominent in critical leadership studies, we show that research in applied linguistics a…
Exploring face, identity and relationship management in disagreements in business meetings in Hong Kong
This paper examines the discursive processes involved in the construction and negotiation of face in Chinese business interactions. Drawing on 20 hours of authentic video- and audio-recorded business meetings in two companies in Hong Kong, we analyse how interlocutors do facework while orienting to and actively constructing their interpersonal relationships. Our particular focus is disagreements upwards, i. e., those, potentially very face-threat…
Candidates' humour and the construction of co-membership in job interviews
Negotiating knowledge and creating solidarity
Vignetten in quantitativen und qualitativen Forschungsdesigns
When laughter is not enough. Responding to teasing and self-denigrating humour at work
Constructing leader identities through teasing at work
Politeness, Humor and Gender in the Workplace
After first considering some of the challenges of defining and measuring the concept of politeness, the analysis draws on data from the Wellington Language in the Workplace Project to illustrate the value of complementary quantitative and qualitative approaches to the issue of what it means to be polite at work. Using the concept of relational practice, an analysis of workplace humor serves to illustrate what each approach offers in terms of dist…
Doing femininity' at work
Workplaces constitute one of the more interesting sites where individuals 'do gender', while at the same time constructing their professional identities and meeting their organisation's expectations. Drawing on interactional data recorded in New Zealand professional organisations, this paper focuses in particular on how participants manage and interpret the notion of 'femininity' in workplace discourse. In much current usage, the concepts 'femini…
Being (im)polite in New Zealand workplaces
Just because he's black
Surviving in a Man's World with a Sense of Humour
Communication not only constitutes one of the crucial aspects of leadership performance, but leadership can productively be viewed as a communication process. Humour is one of the prime means which enables leaders to achieve their various transactional as well as relational objectives. This article aims at exploring some of the ways in which women leaders make use of this particularly versatile discursive strategy in order to enhance their leader…
Candidates' humour and the construction of co-membership in job interviews
Laughter as Medical Providers' Resource
This article aims to challenge the perception that in medical encounters laughter is an interactional resource primarily employed by patients. Drawing on 34 video-recorded prenatal genetic counseling (PGC) sessions collected in a Hong Kong hospital, and combining quantitative and qualitative methods, we illustrate that laughter is in fact frequently employed by the medical providers in our data. The particular focus of the article is on the ways …
Negotiating meaning and co-constructing institutionalisable answers
Exploring another side of co-leadership
Traditional perceptions that view leadership as a top-down process are increasingly challenged by so-called critical perspectives that acknowledge that leadership may involve several people. This article explores a particular type of these other leadership constellations, namely co-leadership where members share several leadership responsibilities.Drawing on more than twenty hours of authentic discourse data recorded in two workplaces in Hong Kon…
Leadership in interaction. An introduction to the Special Issue
Participation of Children and Parents in the Swiss Child Protection System in the Past and Present
As in other European countries, the Swiss child protection system has gone through substantial changes in the course of the 20th century up to today. Increasingly, the needs as well as the participation of children and parents affected by child protection interventions have become a central concern. In Switzerland, critical debates around care-related detention of children and adults until 1981 have led to the launch of the National Research Prog…
That match was "a bit like losing your virginity". Failed humour, face and identity construction in TV interviews with professional athletes and coaches
A critical reflection of current trends in discourse analytical research on leadership across disciplines. A call for a more engaging dialogue
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 dialogue with leadership researchers in applied linguistics and pragmatics. Focusing on current debates around terminological issues and methodological questions that are particularly prominent in critical leadership studies, we show that research in applied linguistics a…
The fallacy of discrete authentic leader behaviours
The concept of authentic leadership is increasingly the focus of much leadership scholarship, and many have called for a review of the basic assumptions that underpin it. Taking an interactional approach to authentic leadership (AL) and using naturally occurring workplace interaction as data, we seek to question two basic assumptions of AL scholarship, namely (1) that authentic leadership emanates from the atomized leader and (2) that there is a …
It's not acceptable for the husband to stay at home
This article illustrates some of the ways in which the notion of (paid) work is actively being gendered, and how these gendering processes take place not only through organizational practices but also in discourses that circulate outside an organization in the private domain. Drawing on 15 in‐depth interviews with women who opted out of their own professional career in order to accompany their husbands on their overseas work assignment to Hong Ko…
Negotiating knowledge and creating solidarity
Legitimizing Claims for ‘Crisis’ Leadership in Global Governance
This paper explores the discursive processes of legitimizing leadership claims in the context of the nuclear proliferation crisis. Three complementary analyses of texts are carried out: discourse analyses of United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolutions and relevant speeches by members of the US administration, as well as a corpus analysis of news media accounts of nuclear proliferation published in prominent US and UK broadsheets. Findings …
International travelling knowledge in social work
Social work has a shared international identity but is also diverse and context specific. There is increasing interest in the international movement of knowledge to national and local contexts but at present there is little analysis of how and why this happens. Instead of seeing knowledge as ‘transferred’ in a straightforward export–import relationship, attention needs to be paid to how knowledge is assembled, mobilised, circulated, reformulated …
[She] said
In this paper we apply the framework of relational work, or the work individuals invest in maintaining their relationships (Locher and Watts 2005), to the analysis of prenatal screening (PS) for Down Syndrome of Chinese clients in Hong Kong. PS has traditionally followed a nondirective principle that calls for an unbiased presentation of information and women’s autonomous decision- making regarding testing. However, in Chinese contexts, healthcar…
Leadership in Hong Kong
Although gender is an important issue in many Asian countries where women often face serious discriminatory practices, this topic is notoriously under-researched from a socio-linguistic perspective. We aim to address this issue by conducting an in-depth case study of leadership and gender in Hong Kong. Drawing on more than 30 hours of authentic workplace discourse and a sample of representative emails, we explore how a successful female leader do…
Politeness and leadership discourse in New Zealand and Hong Kong
Norms of what are considered appropriate and polite ways of communicating are situated in the cultural context in which interactions occur. This crucial role of culture is particularly apparent in a workplace setting: norms regarding appropriate ways of integrating the competing discourses of power and politeness at work are strongly influenced by wider cultural expectations. Drawing on naturally-occurring data recorded in business meetings in Ne…
Impoliteness and ethnicity
In New Zealand, as in many other post-colonial societies, biculturalism is a one-way street: Māori New Zealanders are more likely to be bicultural than are Pākehā New Zealanders. Consequently it is Māori norms, including discourse norms, which are more likely to be ignored in most New Zealand workplaces, with the potential for misunderstanding, and even for offence and unintended insult. Our research in Māori and Pākehā workplaces suggests that u…
Challenging hegemonic femininities? The discourse of trailing spouses in Hong Kong
While the notion of hegemonic masculinity has received a lot of attention in recent scholarship, hegemonic femininity remains largely underdeveloped. We aim to address this gap by illustrating the benefits of using the concept of hegemonic femininities in sociolinguistic scholarship. Conducting a case study on the discourse of trailing spouses in Hong Kong, we analyse hegemonic femininities at the local, regional, and global level and explore how…
Riskante Entscheidungen in der Sozialpädagogik
Konflikte um Qualität
Trotz einer recht umfangreichen Literaturlage zur Diskussion über die Frage der »Qualität« im Kontext sozialer Dienste ist der Qualitätsbegriff weitgehend diffus, sind die entsprechenden Definitionen in hohem Grade dezisionistisch und damit beliebig geblieben. Die »Dreifaltigkeit« von Struktur-, Prozess- und Ergebnisqualität scheint sich als popularisierte Form durchgesetzt zu haben, die gelegentlich variiert, weiter differenziert und operational…
Politeness, Humor and Gender in the Workplace
After first considering some of the challenges of defining and measuring the concept of politeness, the analysis draws on data from the Wellington Language in the Workplace Project to illustrate the value of complementary quantitative and qualitative approaches to the issue of what it means to be polite at work. Using the concept of relational practice, an analysis of workplace humor serves to illustrate what each approach offers in terms of dist…
Doing femininity' at work
Workplaces constitute one of the more interesting sites where individuals 'do gender', while at the same time constructing their professional identities and meeting their organisation's expectations. Drawing on interactional data recorded in New Zealand professional organisations, this paper focuses in particular on how participants manage and interpret the notion of 'femininity' in workplace discourse. In much current usage, the concepts 'femini…
Being (im)polite in New Zealand workplaces
Chapter 9. Impoliteness as a means of contesting power relations in the workplace
Surviving in a Man's World with a Sense of Humour
Communication not only constitutes one of the crucial aspects of leadership performance, but leadership can productively be viewed as a communication process. Humour is one of the prime means which enables leaders to achieve their various transactional as well as relational objectives. This article aims at exploring some of the ways in which women leaders make use of this particularly versatile discursive strategy in order to enhance their leader…
Impoliteness and ethnicity
In New Zealand, as in many other post-colonial societies, biculturalism is a one-way street: Māori New Zealanders are more likely to be bicultural than are Pākehā New Zealanders. Consequently it is Māori norms, including discourse norms, which are more likely to be ignored in most New Zealand workplaces, with the potential for misunderstanding, and even for offence and unintended insult. Our research in Māori and Pākehā workplaces suggests that u…
Gendered Discourse in the Professional Workplace by Louise Mullany
Politeness and leadership discourse in New Zealand and Hong Kong
Norms of what are considered appropriate and polite ways of communicating are situated in the cultural context in which interactions occur. This crucial role of culture is particularly apparent in a workplace setting: norms regarding appropriate ways of integrating the competing discourses of power and politeness at work are strongly influenced by wider cultural expectations. Drawing on naturally-occurring data recorded in business meetings in Ne…
Constructing leader identities through teasing at work
Leadership in Hong Kong
Although gender is an important issue in many Asian countries where women often face serious discriminatory practices, this topic is notoriously under-researched from a socio-linguistic perspective. We aim to address this issue by conducting an in-depth case study of leadership and gender in Hong Kong. Drawing on more than 30 hours of authentic workplace discourse and a sample of representative emails, we explore how a successful female leader do…
Laughter as Medical Providers' Resource
This article aims to challenge the perception that in medical encounters laughter is an interactional resource primarily employed by patients. Drawing on 34 video-recorded prenatal genetic counseling (PGC) sessions collected in a Hong Kong hospital, and combining quantitative and qualitative methods, we illustrate that laughter is in fact frequently employed by the medical providers in our data. The particular focus of the article is on the ways …
When laughter is not enough. Responding to teasing and self-denigrating humour at work
Exploring another side of co-leadership
Traditional perceptions that view leadership as a top-down process are increasingly challenged by so-called critical perspectives that acknowledge that leadership may involve several people. This article explores a particular type of these other leadership constellations, namely co-leadership where members share several leadership responsibilities.Drawing on more than twenty hours of authentic discourse data recorded in two workplaces in Hong Kon…
Kinder- und Jugendhilfe in der Schweiz
Offene Kinder- und Jugendarbeit in der Schweiz
Die Offene Kinder- und Jugendarbeit in der Schweiz befindet sich in einem dynamischen Prozess des Ausbaus, der Strukturenbildung und Ausdifferenzierung und der Professionalisierung. Alle Beobachtungen weisen darauf hin, dass die Zahl von Standorten, an denen Offene Kinder- und Jugendarbeit angeboten wird, wächst. Im Jahr 2002 wurde der „Dachverband Offene Jugendarbeit“ gegründet, dem im Jahr 2010 bereits 13 kantonale und regionale Verbände von Of…
Soziale Arbeit und Demokratie
[She] said
In this paper we apply the framework of relational work, or the work individuals invest in maintaining their relationships (Locher and Watts 2005), to the analysis of prenatal screening (PS) for Down Syndrome of Chinese clients in Hong Kong. PS has traditionally followed a nondirective principle that calls for an unbiased presentation of information and women’s autonomous decision- making regarding testing. However, in Chinese contexts, healthcar…
I can't remember them ever not doing whatI tell them!”
This paper explores how refusals are constructed and negotiated in multicultural workplaces in Hong Kong. A particular focus is on the ways in which Hong Kong Chinese subordinates negotiate issues of face and power relations when refusing their expatriate superiors. Despite abundant research on refusals in a variety of contexts across cultures, there are very few studies of multicultural workplaces. This is particularly surprising considering tha…
Legitimizing Claims for ‘Crisis’ Leadership in Global Governance
This paper explores the discursive processes of legitimizing leadership claims in the context of the nuclear proliferation crisis. Three complementary analyses of texts are carried out: discourse analyses of United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolutions and relevant speeches by members of the US administration, as well as a corpus analysis of news media accounts of nuclear proliferation published in prominent US and UK broadsheets. Findings …
Positioning oneself in relation to larger collectivities in expatriates’ workplace narratives
This article aims to explore narratives as sites for identity construction by employing the concept of positioning to analyse some of the discursive processes through which identity construction is accomplished in institutional contexts. Our specific foci are i) the ways in which individuals position themselves in relation to larger collectivities in their narratives about being expatriates living and working in Hong Kong, and ii) how they constr…
International travelling knowledge in social work
Social work has a shared international identity but is also diverse and context specific. There is increasing interest in the international movement of knowledge to national and local contexts but at present there is little analysis of how and why this happens. Instead of seeing knowledge as ‘transferred’ in a straightforward export–import relationship, attention needs to be paid to how knowledge is assembled, mobilised, circulated, reformulated …
Negotiating meaning and co-constructing institutionalisable answers
Exploring distributed leadership
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 groups and using a discourse analytic framework and tools, we examine how leadership is enacted in a team that does not have an assigned leader or chair. Our specific focus is the discursive processes through which team members conjointly solve disagreements and negotiat…
Sociology (41 obras) · Political science (36 obras) · Psychology (32 obras) · Social Psychology (24 obras) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (23 obras) · Social Psychology (22 obras) · Public relations (17 obras) · Negotiation (15 obras) · Linguistics (14 obras) · Computer Science (13 obras)