
On Language and Sexual Politics
Deborah Cameron(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 3. February 2006
Book
Hardback
206 pages
978-0-415-37343-2 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of articles presents a selection of Deborah Cameron's work on language, gender and sex in one single volume. Arranged thematically, this book covers major developments in Anglo-American feminist linguistics, and Cameron's responses to these, spanning the last twenty years.
The collection's overarching theme is the political relationship between language and gender: four distinctly themed sections demonstrate that a variety of forces affect gender relations, and gender representations, in different times and places. Cameron examines the connections between language and the (mis)representation of reality, and the role language plays in reproducing gender inequalities. More recent articles focus on representations of men and women as communicators, as well as the impact of sexuality on gender and gender relations, an increasingly prominent area of the author's research.
This timely study brings much of Cameron's work together for the first time, and highlights characteristics of her work with which many readers will be familiar: a combination of linguistic and feminist political orientation; and a distinct focus on conflict in gender relations. Including a new introductory essay and eleven articles, three of which are previously unpublished, with short introductions to contextualize each piece, the collection is extremely useful for students and teachers on a variety of courses including English language and linguistics, women's studies, gender studies and communication studies.
The collection's overarching theme is the political relationship between language and gender: four distinctly themed sections demonstrate that a variety of forces affect gender relations, and gender representations, in different times and places. Cameron examines the connections between language and the (mis)representation of reality, and the role language plays in reproducing gender inequalities. More recent articles focus on representations of men and women as communicators, as well as the impact of sexuality on gender and gender relations, an increasingly prominent area of the author's research.
This timely study brings much of Cameron's work together for the first time, and highlights characteristics of her work with which many readers will be familiar: a combination of linguistic and feminist political orientation; and a distinct focus on conflict in gender relations. Including a new introductory essay and eleven articles, three of which are previously unpublished, with short introductions to contextualize each piece, the collection is extremely useful for students and teachers on a variety of courses including English language and linguistics, women's studies, gender studies and communication studies.
Reviews / Votes
'I am daunted to be writing a review of a book that says everything so well... The entire book would be an excellent resource for a language and gender, sociolinguistics, or gender studies course... All of this in Cameron's desert-sky clear prose, coupled with her forceful argumentation, will engage students into the field in a way that a that a textbook wouldnot.'- Scott F.Kiesling, University of Pittsburgh, USAMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Postgraduate
Illustrations
3 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 3 s/w Tabellen
3 Tables, black and white; 3 Halftones, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
482 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-37343-2 (9780415373432)
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Person
Deborah Cameron currently holds the Rupert Murdoch Chair of Language and Communication at Oxford University. A sociolinguist and feminist, she is the author of Verbal Hygiene (1995) and The Feminist Critique of Language (1998), and co-author with Don Kulick of Language and Sexuality (2003).
Content
Acknowledgements Introduction: On language and sexual politics Part 1: The Sexual Politics of Representation 1. Sexism and Semantics (1984) 2. Nonsexist Language: Lost in Translation? (1995) 3. Language, Sexism and Advertising Standards (2004) Part 2: Power and Difference 4. Lakoff in Context: The Form and Function of Tag Wuestions (with Fiona McAlinden and Kathy O'Leary, 1988) 5. Performing Gender Identity: Young Men's Talk and the Construction of Heterosexual Masculinity (1997) 6. 'Is there any ketchup, Vera?' Gender, Power and Pragmatics (1998 ) Part 3: Ideologies of Language and Gender 7. Verbal Hygiene for Women: Linguistics Misapplied? (1994) 8. Styling the Worker: Gender and the Commodification of Language in the Globalized Service Economy (2000) 9. Men are from Earth, Women are from Earth (2003) Part 4: Language, Gender and Sexuality 10. Naming of Parts: Gender, Culture and Terms for the Penis among American College Students (1992) 11. Straight Talking: The Sociolinguistics of Heterosexuality (2002) Notes Bibliography Index