Leadership and Collaboration

The aim of this chapter is to review the concepts of leadership and collaboration, both of which feature prominently in the discussion and analysis presented in this book. This chapter provides a detailed theoretical overview of, first, how these are understood in various disciplines that engage with leadership and collaboration before moving on to look at how these are understood by linguists, and, then, also how these are interpreted in this book specifically. This theoretical foundation provides a departure point for the linguistic analysis of the realisation of leadership and collaboration to follow, allowing me to position this analysis within a broader theoretical context and articulate my own positionality as the analyst.