Main description:
The contributions to the book 'Communicating Gender in Context' deal not only with grammatical gender, but also with discursive procedures for constructing gender as a relevant social category in text and context. Attention is directed to European cultures which till now have come up short in linguistic and discourse analytic gender studies, e.g., Austria, Spain, Turkey, Germany, Poland and Sweden. But also English speech communities and questions of English grammatical gender are dealt with.
In accordance with recent sociolinguistic research the contributors refrain from generalizing theses about how men and women normally speak; no conversational style feature adheres so firmly to one sex as was thought in early feminism. The studies, however, show that even today the feminine gender is often staged in a way that leads to situative asymmetry to the advantage of men. The broader societal context of patriarchy does not determine all communicative encounters, but demands particular efforts from women and men to be subverted.
Table of contents:
- Preface
- 1. Symbols and Rules
- Making men out of people. The MAN principle in translating genderless forms
- 'Male person' vs. 'Everything that is not a male person'. Gender andsex in Polish
- Gender, grammar, and the space in between
- 2. Conversational Features, Codes and Activities
- The interplay between interruptions and preference organization in conversation. New perspectives on aclassic topic of gender research
- Is Spain different? Observations on male-female communicative styles in a Spanish group discussion
- The interactional achievement of expert status. Creating asymmetries by 'Teaching ConversationalLectures'in TV discussions
- Complaint stories. Constructing emotional reciprocity among women
- Women and men in the academic discourse community
- Communicating gender in two languages
- 3. A Range of Feminities
- Competing discourse of feminity
- Race, gender and academic leadership
- 'I know, we won't revolutionize the world with it, but''
- Do's and dont's. Gender representations in a political debate
- The relevance of fundamental frequency contour for interruptions
The contributions to the book 'Communicating Gender in Context' deal not only with grammatical gender, but also with discursive procedures for constructing gender as a relevant social category in text and context. Attention is directed to European cultures which till now have come up short in linguistic and discourse analytic gender studies, e.g., Austria, Spain, Turkey, Germany, Poland and Sweden. But also English speech communities and questions of English grammatical gender are dealt with.
In accordance with recent sociolinguistic research the contributors refrain from generalizing theses about how men and women normally speak; no conversational style feature adheres so firmly to one sex as was thought in early feminism. The studies, however, show that even today the feminine gender is often staged in a way that leads to situative asymmetry to the advantage of men. The broader societal context of patriarchy does not determine all communicative encounters, but demands particular efforts from women and men to be subverted.
Table of contents:
- Preface
- 1. Symbols and Rules
- Making men out of people. The MAN principle in translating genderless forms
- 'Male person' vs. 'Everything that is not a male person'. Gender andsex in Polish
- Gender, grammar, and the space in between
- 2. Conversational Features, Codes and Activities
- The interplay between interruptions and preference organization in conversation. New perspectives on aclassic topic of gender research
- Is Spain different? Observations on male-female communicative styles in a Spanish group discussion
- The interactional achievement of expert status. Creating asymmetries by 'Teaching ConversationalLectures'in TV discussions
- Complaint stories. Constructing emotional reciprocity among women
- Women and men in the academic discourse community
- Communicating gender in two languages
- 3. A Range of Feminities
- Competing discourse of feminity
- Race, gender and academic leadership
- 'I know, we won't revolutionize the world with it, but''
- Do's and dont's. Gender representations in a political debate
- The relevance of fundamental frequency contour for interruptions