Challenges the dichotomy of female and male use of language, addressing the 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.
Challenges the dichotomy of female and male use of language, addressing the 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.
Victoria L. Bergvall is Associate Professor of Linguistics, Michigan Technological University, and has published articles and book chapters on language and gender as well as African syntax. Janet M. Bing is Professor of Linguistics and a member of the Women's Studies faculty at Old Dominion University. She has published numerous articles on gender issues and on phonology, and a book, Aspects of English Prosody. Alice F. Freed is Professor of Linguistics and a member of the Women's Studies faculty at Montclair State University. She has published extensively on language and gender, and authored a book, The Semantics of English Aspectual Complementation.
Inhaltsangabe
Contributors, Editors's Preface; Acknowledgements 1. The question of questions: beyond binary thinking, Janet M. Bing and Victoria L. Bergvall 2. The language-gender interface: challenging co-optation, Deborah Cameron 3. Language and gender research in an experimental setting, Alice F. Freed 4. Floor management and power strategies in adolescent conversation, Alice Greenwood 5. Women, men and prestige speech forms: a critical review, Deborah James 6. Storytellers and gatekeepers in economics, Livia Polanyi and Diana Strassmann 7. Consensual sex or sexual harassment: negotiating meaning, Susan Ehrilch and Ruth King 8. Constructing and enacting gender through discourse: negotiating multiple roles as female engineering students, Victoria L. Bergvall 9. Dealing with gender identity as a sociolinguistic variable, Miriam Meyerhoff 10. Shifting gender positions among Hindi-speaking hijras, Kira Hall and Veronica O'Donovan 11. Black feminist theory and African American women's linguistic practice, Mary Bucholtz Index
Contributors, Editors's Preface; Acknowledgements 1. The question of questions: beyond binary thinking, Janet M. Bing and Victoria L. Bergvall 2. The language-gender interface: challenging co-optation, Deborah Cameron 3. Language and gender research in an experimental setting, Alice F. Freed 4. Floor management and power strategies in adolescent conversation, Alice Greenwood 5. Women, men and prestige speech forms: a critical review, Deborah James 6. Storytellers and gatekeepers in economics, Livia Polanyi and Diana Strassmann 7. Consensual sex or sexual harassment: negotiating meaning, Susan Ehrilch and Ruth King 8. Constructing and enacting gender through discourse: negotiating multiple roles as female engineering students, Victoria L. Bergvall 9. Dealing with gender identity as a sociolinguistic variable, Miriam Meyerhoff 10. Shifting gender positions among Hindi-speaking hijras, Kira Hall and Veronica O'Donovan 11. Black feminist theory and African American women's linguistic practice, Mary Bucholtz Index
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