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The Handbook of Language and Gender

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778 Seiten
2004
Blackwell Publishers (Verlag)
9780631225034 (ISBN)
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The Handbook of Language and Gender is a collection of articles written by leading specialists in the field that examines the dynamic ways in which women and men develop and manage gendered identities through their talk.



∗ Examines the dynamic ways that women and men develop and manage gendered identities through their talk.
The Handbook of Language and Gender is a collection of articles written by leading specialists in the field that examines the dynamic ways in which women and men develop and manage gendered identities through their talk.




Provides a comprehensive, up–to–date, and stimulating picture of the field for students and researchers in a wide range of disciplines





Features data and case studies from interactions in different social contexts and from a range of different communities

Janet Holmes holds a personal Chair in Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington and is Director of the Wellington Language in the Workplace Project and the Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English. She is the author of numerous books and articles, including Introduction to Sociolinguistics (second edition, 2001) and Women, Men and Politeness (1995). She is editor of Gendered Speech in Social Context (2000). Miriam Meyerhoff is Reader in Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh, before which she was Assistant Professor at the University of Hawai′i, Manoa. She has published articles on language and gender, language change in creoles, and is the author of Constraints on Null Subjects in Bislama (Vanuatu) (2000).

Notes on Contributors.
Acknowledgments.


Different Voices, Different Views: An Introduction to Current Research in Language and Gender (Janet Holmes and Miriam Meyerhoff).


Part I: History and theoretical Background to the Study of language and Gender.


1. Theorizing Gender in Sociolinguistics and Linguistic Anthropology (Bonnie McElhinny).


2. Theories of Discourse as Theories of Gender: Discourse Analysis in Language and Gender Studies (Mary Bucholtz).


3. "What’s in a Name?" Social Labeling and Gender Practices (Sally McConnell–Ginet).


4. Variation in Language and Gender (Suzanne Romaine).


5. Language and Desire (Don Lulick).


6. "One Man in Two is a Woman": Linguistic Approaches to Gender in Literary Texts (Anna Livia).


Part II: Negotiating Relations.


7. Language, Gender, and Politics: Putting "Women" and "Power" in the Same Sentence (Robin Lakoff).


8. Gender and Family Interaction (Deborah Tannen).


9. Gender and Power in On–line Communication (Susan C. Herring).


10. The Relevance of Ethnicity, Class, and Gender in Children′s Peer Negotiations (Marjorie Harness Goodwin).


11. The Power of Gender Ideologies in Discourse (Susan U. Philips).


Part III: Authenticity and Place.


12. Crossing Genders, Mixing Languages: The Linguistic Construction of Transgenderism in Tonga (Niko Besnier).


13. Claiming a Place: Gender, Knowledge, and Authority as Emergent Properties (Miriam Meyerhoff).


14. Constructing and Managing Male Exclusivity in Talk–in–interaction (Jack Sidnell).


15. Exceptional Speakers: Contested and Problematized Gender Identities (Kira Hall).


16. Language and Gender in Adolescence (Penelope Eckert).


17. Language and Gendered Modernity (William L. Leap).


18. A Marked Man: The Contexts o Gender and Ethnicity (Sara Trechter).


Part IV: Stereotypes and Norms.


19. Gender and Language Ideologies (Deborah Cameron).


20. Gender Stereotypes: Reproduction and Challenge (Mary Talbot).


21. Gender and Identity: Representation and Social Action (Ann Weatherall and Cindy Gallois).


22. Prestige, Cultural Models, and Other Ways to Talking About Underlying Norms and Gender (Scott Fabius Kiesling).


23. Communicating Gendered Professional Identity: Competence, Cooperation, and Conflict in the Workplace (Caja Thimm, Sabine C. Koch, and Sabine Schey).


24. Linguistic Sexism and Feminist Linguistic Activism (Anne Pauwels).


Part V: Institutional Discourse.


25. "Feminine" Workplaces: Stereotype and Reality (Janet Holmes and Maria Stubbe).


26. Creating Gendered Demeanors of Authority at Work and at Home (Shari Kendall).


27. Schooled Language: Language and Gender in Educational Settings (Joan Swann).


28. Coercing Gender: Language in Sexual Assault Adjudication Processes (Susan Ehrlich).


29. Multiple Identities: The Roles of Female Parliamentarians in the EU Parliament (Ruth Wodak).


Epilogue: reflections on Language and Gender Research (Alice F. Freed).


Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 30.12.2004
Reihe/Serie Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 173 x 244 mm
Gewicht 1318 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-13 9780631225034 / 9780631225034
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