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Applying the emergent Business and Human Rights (BHR) regime as a case, this book analyses regulatory strategies, communicative approaches and public-private processes to develop new sustainability-related norms, particularly for business, for maintaining and promoting public policy objectives and societal needs. Karin Buhmann sets out the concerns of public regulators and businesses that both inform debates and create power struggles in the construction of sustainability norms between public policy interests and the market. The author focuses on three trends in argumentative strategies applied in the BHR context and considers the use, impact and complementarity of these for sustainability regulation. Through analysis of selected transnational regulatory processes, the book identifies argumentative and negotiation strategies that led to agreement on BHR despite conflicting interests across public, private and not-for-profit (NGO) stakeholders, and develops insights for future multi-stakeholder sustainability regulation, focusing both on the regulatory process and the outcome. Changing Sustainability Norms through Communication Processes will be a valuable read for NGOs, regulators, managers and academics with a concern for sustainability regulation by helping to enhance their understanding of how to influence normative change in organisations, in support of sustainability and responsible business conduct.

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`Karin Buhmann's Changing Sustainability Norms through Communication Processes is an excellent single-volume monograph on international law and business conduct that urges the adoption of policies based on human rights and corporate social responsibility (CSR) in both national and transnational operations.' -- Shameema Rahman, International Journal of Legal Information `This book provides useful new narratives with which to explain the evolution of soft law within the interconnected fields of business and human rights and corporate sustainability. It helps situate these developments within the overall frames of international law and socio-legal studies, not merely for the academy and for theory's sake, but also to guide the wide range of societal actors, including sustainability champions inside companies, seeking to use norms to help change the practices of corporations to be more responsible and sustainable.' -- Ursula Wynhoven, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (on staff loan from the UN Global Compact)

'This book provides useful new narratives with which to explain the evolution of soft law within the interconnected fields of business and human rights and corporate sustainability. It helps situate these developments within the overall frames of international law and socio-legal studies, not merely for the academy and for theory's sake, but also to guide the wide range of societal actors, including sustainability champions inside companies, seeking to use norms to help change the practices of corporations to be more responsible and sustainable.' --Ursula Wynhoven, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (on staff loan from the UN Global Compact)

-Robin Lakoff's work is inspirational. Just read her captivating, reflective Afterword to understand why. Using a distinctive personal and often passionate voice from her earliest articles in the 1970s, she has consistently enriched and deepened linguistic analysis with insightful social and political perspectives when many were heading in a very different direction. Her perceptive analyses of the interaction of gender and power in particular have been a consistent theme throughout. I was lucky enough to be one of those who heard her voice and loved her writing from the first, and I have continued to do so through to the present, an exciting intellectual and socio-political journey which is reflected very satisfyingly in this -attractive, substantial and tasty- linguistic treasury of her work.---Janet Holmes, Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, Victoria University of Wellington-This book finally allows insight into the amazing intellectual trajectory of Robin Lakoff by covering the huge range of her work across so many relevant fields of Linguistics, Pragmatics, Feminist Linguistics, and Sociolinguistics. The selected papers manifest the enormous range of expertise and knowledge acquired over many years. Robin Lakoff's innovative and dedicated scholarship will continue to inspire students and academics alike. A must-read!---Ruth Wodak, Emeritus Professor, Distinguished Professor and Chair in Discourse Studies, Lancaster University/University Vienna-Robin Lakoff is brilliant. In this breathtaking body of work spanning several decades, she demonstrates the analytical power of the social scientist and the interpretive strength of the humanist brought together to provide insight after insight into how language works and how it shapes and takes shape from the human experience. If you are in any way interested in modern linguistics - in the intersection of language theory and language use - and in how to view the world through a lens that embraces women as well as men - this is a must read.---Janet L. Holmgren, President Emerita, Mills College and former Susan Mills Professor of English; Author (Janet Holmgren McKay) of Narration and Discourse in American Realistic Fiction (1982) and co-author with Spencer Cosmos of The Story of English (1986).-This collection provides a window into the brilliant mind of Robin Tolmach Lakoff, one of the most important linguists of our current era. The articles reprinted here, each revolutionary in its own right, are as bold and relevant now as they were at the time of their first publishing. These are elegant essays, crafted by a scholar and public intellectual who has transformed our understanding of semantic, pragmatic, and sociopolitical meaning.---Kira Hall, Associate Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology, University of Colorado

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Karin Buhmann, Professor of Business and Human Rights, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

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