1. Introduction.Part I: Gender Differences in Pronunciation and Grammar:2. Yanyuwa: Men Speak One Way, Women Another: John Bradley.3. Sex and Covert Prestige: Peter Trudgill.4. Linguistic Variation and Social Function: Jenny Cheshire.5. Girl-Talk/Boy-Talk: Sex Differences in Adolescent Speech: Edina Eisikovits.6. Black Women in the Rural South: Conservative and Innovative: Patricia Nichols.Part II: Gender Differences in Conversational Practice:8. How and Why are Women More Polite: Penelope Brown.9. Complimenting: A Positive Politeness Strategy: Janet Holmes.10. Co-operation and Competition Across Girls' Play Activities: Marjorie Goodwin.11. Peasant Men Can't Get Wives: Language Change and Sex Roles in a Bilingual Community: Susan Gal.Part III: Conversational Dominance in Mixed Talk:12. Women's Place in Everyday Talk: Candace West and Don Zimmerman.13. Talk Control: An Illustration From the Classroom of Problems in Analysing Male Dominance in Conversation: Joan Swann.14. The Sounds of Silence: How Men Silence Women in Marital Relations: Victoria DeFrancisco.15. Participation in Electronic Discourse in a "Feminist Field": Susan Herring et al.Part IV: Same-Sex Talk:16. The Talk of Women Friends: Fern Johnson and Elizabeth Aries.17. Gossip Revisited: Language in All-Female Groups: Jennifer Coates.18. Don't Try and Make Out That I'm Nice: The Different Strategies Women and Men Use When Gossiping: Jane Pilkington.19. Performing Gender Identity: Young Men's Talk and the Construction of Heterosexual Masculinity: Deborah Cameron.20. Sporting Formulae in New Zealand English: Two Models of Male Solidarity: Koenraad Kuiper.Part V: Women's Talk in the Public Domain:21. Female Speakers of Japanese in Transition: K. A. Reynolds.22. I Don't Smile Much Any More: Affect, Gender and the Discourse of Pittsburgh Police Officers: Bonnie McElhinny.23. Not Just "Doctor's Orders": Directive-Response Sequences in Patients Visits to Women and Men Physicians: Candace West.24. Women's Ways: Interactive Patterns in Predominantly Female Research Teams: Marie Wilson Nelson.Part VI: Theoretical Debates (I): Gender or Power?:25."Women's Language" or "Powerless Language": William O'Barr and Bowman Atkins.26. Are Powerless Communication Strategies the Japanese Norm?: Patricia Wetzel.27. When the Doctor is a Lady: Candace West.Part VII: Theoretical Debates (II): Difference or Dominance?28. A Cultural Approach to Male-Female Miscommunication: Daniel Maltz and Ruth Borker.29. Talk in the Intimate Relationship: His and Hers: Deborah Tannen.30. Selling the Apolitical: Senta Troemal-Ploetz.Part VIII: Language and Gender: Looking to the Future:31. Women's Talk: the Question of Sociolinguistic Universals: Janet Holmes.32. Communities of Practice: Where Gender, Language and Power All Live: Penelope Eckert and Sally McConnell-Ginet.33. The Question of Questions: Beyond Binary Thinking: Janet Bing and Victoria Bergvall.
