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SUMMARY:On Identities\, Relational Work and Gender in Business: A Linguisti
 c Case Study of Agile IT
DESCRIPTION:Agile methodologies have become the norm for software developme
 nt and project management in IT\, representing a shift toward collaborativ
 e\, non-hierarchical and iterative work in cross-functional teams. It has 
 been argued that this increases the space for diversity\, but prevailing b
 arriers especially to the inclusion of women are continuously identified i
 n the literature. Linguistic frameworks in interpersonal pragmatics and di
 scourse analysis can provide the level of complexity needed to increase un
 derstanding of these phenomena in a setting characterized by gendered disc
 ourses and ideologies of agile. Yet\, the linguistic practices underlying 
 agile methodologies remain largely under-researched. The present PhD proje
 ct proposes to address this with a case study of two Swiss and two UK agil
 e IT companies\, investigating identity construction and relational work i
 n business interaction reflected in multiple types of spoken and written d
 ata. In this talk\, I outline the research plan for the proposed study and
  will report on preliminary findings from interviews with professionals in
  the field.
X-ALT-DESC:Agile methodologies have become the norm for software developmen
 t and project management in IT\, representing a shift toward collaborative
 \, non-hierarchical and iterative work in cross-functional teams. It has b
 een argued that this increases the space for diversity\, but prevailing ba
 rriers especially to the inclusion of women are continuously identified in
  the literature. Linguistic frameworks in interpersonal pragmatics and dis
 course analysis can provide the level of complexity needed to increase und
 erstanding of these phenomena in a setting characterized by gendered disco
 urses and ideologies of agile. Yet\, the linguistic practices underlying a
 gile methodologies remain largely under-researched. The present PhD projec
 t proposes to address this with a case study of two Swiss and two UK agile
  IT companies\, investigating identity construction and relational work in
  business interaction reflected in multiple types of spoken and written da
 ta. In this talk\, I outline the research plan for the proposed study and 
 will report on preliminary findings from interviews with professionals in 
 the field.
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