Journal of Business and Technical Communication Jan 1994

The Value of Gender Studies to Professional Communication Research

MARY M. LAY

Abstract

This article reviews selected gender scholarship that informs the study of professional communication as well as some recent articles on professional communication that make use of gender studies. The article also suggests future research directions that include a merger of gender and professional communication scholarship. Topics covered include gender and communication and gender identity, along with gender and writing, reading, speaking language choice, visual communication, collaboration, content analysis, management, history and case studies.

Journal
Journal of Business and Technical Communication
Published
1994-01-01
DOI
10.1177/1050651994008001003
Open Access
Closed
Topics
multimodality professional writing gender and writing multilingual writers

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