The Rhetoric of Accommodation : Considering the Language of Work-Family Discourse

The language used to describe work-family issues reflects certain ways of thinking about the interconnectedness and segmentation of work and family. quot;Accommodatequot; or quot;accommodationquot; is a word that is often used in discussions about policies that apply to work and family. This article uses a cluster method of rhetorical analysis to look at the history of quot;accommodationquot; in legal discourse. It concludes that the use of the word quot;accommodationquot; in other legal contexts can constrain the ways of envisioning the roles, relationships, and possibilities for work and family in discussions about work-family policies