Rethinking Language and Gender Research
Theory and Practice
Published on 12. November 1996
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-0-582-26574-5 (ISBN)
Description
This text focuses on language and gender to challenge the dichotomy of female and male use of language, addressing political and social consequences of popular beliefs about "women's language" and "men's language" and proposing new ways of looking at language and gender.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Harlow
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pearson Education Limited
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
530 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-582-26574-5 (9780582265745)
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Victoria Bergvall | Janet Bing | Alice. Freed
Rethinking Language and Gender Research
Theory and Practice
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11/1996
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Content
The question of questions - beyond binary thinking, Janet M. Bing and Victoria L. Bergvall; the language-gender interface - challenging co-optation, Deborah Cameron; language and gender research in an experimental setting, Alice F. Freed; floor management and power strategies in adolescent conversation, Alice Greenwood; women, men and prestige speech forms - a critical review, Deborah James; storytellers and gatekeepers in economics, Livia Polanyi and Diana Strassmann; consentual sex or sexual harassment - negotiating meaning, Susan Erlich and Ruth King; constructing and enacting gender through discourse - negotiating multiple roles as female engineering students, Victoria L. Bergvall; dealing with gender identity as a sociolinguistic variable, Miriam Meyerhoff; shifting gender positions among Hindi-speaking Hijras, Kira Hall and Veronica O'Donovan; black feminist theory and African American women's linguistic practice, Mary Bucholtz.