ABSTRACT
This introduction to the volume is based on a critical review of the studies that have addressed the analysis of women’s speech from different perspectives and methodologies to highlight the novelty and necessity of the topics addressed by all the chapters in this work: the symbiosis between communication and female leadership. The authors are committed to a pragmalinguistic approach, based on the analysis of real corpus, which presents a description of the leadership exercised by women without prejudice or preconceived ideas. In this sense, the conclusions obtained in previous works, registered within the framework of the research project “Female leadership: communication strategies and image management” (FEDER-US. US-1263310), are summarized, and the structure of the monograph is explained
