| Description |
1 online resource (525 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction : twenty years after Language and woman's place / Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall -- Cries and whispers : the shattering of the silence / Robin Tolmach Lakoff -- Pregnant pauses : silence and authority in the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearings / Norma Mendoza-Denton -- "This discussion is going too far!" : male resistance to female participation on the Internet / Susan Herring, Deborah A. Johnson, and Tamra DiBenedetto --The "father knows best" dynamic in dinnertime narratives / Elinor Ochs and Carolyn Taylor -- Managing the body of labor : the treatment of reproduction and sexuality in a therapeutic institution / Cathryn Houghton -- A synthetic sisterhood : false friends in a teenage magazine / Mary Talbot -- Language, gender, and power : an anthropological review / Susan Gal-- Lip service on the fantasy lines / Kira Hall -- Challenging hegemonic masculinities : female and male police officers handling domestic violence / Bonnie S. McElhinny -- "I ought to throw a Buick at you" : fictional representations of butch/femme speech / Anna Livia -- Bitches and skankly hobags : the place of some women in contemporary slang / Laurel A. Sutton -- "Tasteless" Japanese : less "feminine" speech among young Japanese women / Shigeko Okamoto -- "Are you with me?" : power and solidarity in the discourse of African American women / Michèle Foster -- From mulatta to mestiza : passing and the linguistic reshaping of ethnic identity / Mary Bucholtz -- "Nobody is talking bad" : creating community and claiming power on the production lines / Tara Goldstein -- Reproducing the discourse of mothering : how gendered talk makes gendered lives / Jenny Cook-Gumperz -- Sometimes Spanish, sometimes English : language use among rural New Mexican Chicanas / María Dolores Gonzales Velásquez -- The writing on the wall : a border case of race and gender / Birch Moonwoman -- Constructing meaning, constructing selves : snapshots of language, gender, and class from Belten High / Penelope Eckert and Sally McConnell-Ginet |
| Summary |
Gender Articulated is a groundbreaking work of sociolinguistics that forges new connections between language-related fields and feminist theory. Refuting apolitical, essentialist perspectives on language and gender, the essays presented here examine a range of cultures, languages and settings. They explicitly connect feminist theory to language research. Some of the most distinguished scholars working in the field of language and gender today discuss such topics as Japanese women's appropriation of ""men's language,"" the literary representat |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Language and languages -- Sex differences.
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Sexism in language.
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Women -- Language.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Sociolinguistics.
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Language and languages -- Sex differences
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Sexism in language
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Women -- Language
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hall, Kira, 1962-
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Bucholtz, Mary, 1966-
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| ISBN |
9781136045424 |
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1136045422 |
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