ABSTRACT
The concepts of 'culture' and 'cultural difference' are particularly visible in the business world and everyday life and are constantly redefined in our interconnected world. Dominant ideologies of cultural difference are representations which can reduce the complexity of practice. Further on methodological matters, synthesising across areas of enquiry in the linguistic domain can already move towards the current calls for inter/multidisciplinarity. Given that the workplace is a political space, this interpretive process encompasses negotiating the power imbalance that comes with hegemonic discourses around race, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, age, status, and so forth. The influence of postmodernism is felt across the spectrum of social sciences and the emphasis on multidisciplinarity provides fertile ground for probing further our theoretical and methodological tools. Although the field of workplace discourse has come of age a lot of work is still to be done; the concept of work is changing, disciplinary boundaries are collapsing, and our theoretical tools are under scrutiny.
