| Description |
xv, 759 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Blackwell handbooks in linguistics ; 13 |
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Blackwell handbooks in linguistics ; 13
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| Contents |
Different voices, different views: an introduction to current research in language and gender / Janet Holmes / Miriam Meyerhoff -- PART I. HISTORY AND THEORETICAL BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE AND GENDER -- Theorizing gender in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology / Bonnie McElhinny -- Theories of discourse as theories of gender: discourse analysis in language and gender studies / Mary Bucholtz -- "What's in a name?" Social labeling and gender practices / Sally McConnell-Ginet -- Variation in language and gender / Suzanne Romaine -- Language and desire / Don Kulick -- "One man in two is a woman": linguistic approaches to gender in literary texts / Anna Livia -- PART II. NEGOTIATING RELATIONS -- Language, gender, and politics: putting "women" and "power" in the same sentence / Robin Lakoff -- Gender and family interaction / Deborah Tannen -- Gender and power in on-line communication / Susan C. Herring -- Relevance of ethnicity, class, and gender in children's peer negotiations / Marjorie Harness Goodwin -- Power of gender ideologies in discourse / Susan U. Philips -- PART III. AUTHENTICITY AND PLACE -- Crossing genders, mixing languages: the linguistic construction of transgenderism in Tonga / Niko Besnier -- Claiming a place: gender, knowledge, and authority as emergent properties / Miriam Meyerhoff -- Constructing and managing male exclusivity in talk-in-interaction / Jack Sidnell -- Exceptional speakers: contested and problematized gender identities / Kira Hall -- Language and gender in adolescence / Penelope Eckert -- Language and gendered modernity / William L. Leap -- Marked man: the contexts of gender and ethnicity / Sara Trechter -- PART IV. STEREOTYPES AND NORMS -- Gender and language ideologies / Deborah Cameron -- Gender stereotypes: reproduction and challenge / Mary Talbot -- Gender and identity: representation and social action / Ann Weatherall / Cindy Gallois -- Prestige, cultural models, and other ways of talking about underlying norms and gender / Scott Fabius Kiesling -- Communicating gendered professional identity: competence, cooperation, and conflict in the workplace / Caja Thimm ... [et al.] -- Linguistic sexism and feminist linguistic activism / Anne Pauwels -- PART V. INSTITUTIONAL DISCOURSE -- "Feminine" workplaces: stereotype and reality / Janet Holmes / Maria Stubbe -- Creating gendered demeanors of authority at work and at home / Shari Kendall -- Schooled language: language and gender in educational settings / Joan Swann -- Coercing gender: language in sexual assault adjudication processes / Susan Ehrlich -- Multiple identities: the roles of female parliamentarians in the EU parliament / Ruth Wodak -- Epilogue Reflections on language and gender research / Alice F. Freed |
| Notes |
Janet Holmes is a New Zealand editor |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Sexism in language.
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English language -- Sex differences.
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Language and sex.
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Language and languages -- Sex differences.
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| Author |
Meyerhoff, Miriam.
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Holmes, Janet, 1947-
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| LC no. |
2002006515 |
| ISBN |
0631225021 alkaline paper |
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