Doing Leadership in Context: The Impact of Working Groups

Abstract

The examples discussed in the previous chapters indicated that leadership discourse, in particular leaders’ use of humour, is dependent on the context in which it occurs. And one of the most crucial factors that have an impact on leadership discourse is the discursive norms developed in the various working groups in which leaders participate on a day-to-day basis. This chapter investigates this observation in more detail and takes a closer look at the ways in which leaders’ linguistic performance is related to norms developed in their respective working groups.