Research Catalog

Title

The handbook of language and gender / edited by Janet Holmes and Miriam Meyerhoff.

Publication

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2003.

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Additional Authors

• Holmes, Janet, 1947-
• Meyerhoff, Miriam.

Description

xv, 759 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.

Series Statement

Blackwell handbooks in linguistics ; 13

Uniform Title

Blackwell handbooks in linguistics ; 13.

Subject

Language and sex

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Different Voices, Different Views: An Introduction to Current Research in Language and Gender / Janet Holmes and Miriam Meyerhoff -- Pt. I. History and Theoretical Background to the Study of Language and Gender -- 1. Theorizing Gender in Sociolinguistics and Linguistic Anthropology / Bonnie McElhinny -- 2. Theories of Discourse as Theories of Gender: Discourse Analysis in Language and Gender Studies / Mary Bucholtz -- 3. "What's in a Name?" Social Labeling and Gender Practices / Sally McConnell-Ginet -- 4. Variation in Language and Gender / Suzanne Romaine -- 5. Language and Desire / Don Kulick -- 6. "One Man in Two is a Woman": Linguistic Approaches to Gender in Literary Tests / Anna Livia -- Pt. II. Negotiating Relations -- 7. Language, Gender, and Politics: Putting "Women" and "Power" in the Same Sentence / Robin Lakoff -- 8. Gender and Family Interaction / Deborah Tannen -- 9. Gender and Power in On-line Communication / Susan C. Herring --
• 10. The Relevance of Ethnicity, Class, and Gender in Children's Peer Negotiations / Marjorie Harness Goodwin -- 11. The Power of Gender Ideologies in Discourse / Susan U. Philips -- Pt. III. Authenticity and Place -- 12. Crossing Genders, Mixing Languages: The Linguistic Construction of Transgenderism in Tonga / Niko Besnier -- 13. Claiming a Place: Gender, Knowledge, and Authority as Emergent Properties / Miriam Meyerhoff -- 14. Constructing and Managing Male Exclusivity in Talk-in-interaction / Jack Sidnell -- 15. Exceptional Speakers: Contested and Problematized Gender Identities / Kira Hall -- 16. Language and Gender in Adolescence / Penelope Eckert -- 17. Language and Gendered Modernity / William L. Leap -- 18. A Marked Man: The Contexts of Gender and Ethnicity / Sara Trechter -- Pt. IV. Stereotypes and Norms -- 19. Gender and Language Ideologies / Deborah Cameron -- 20. Gender Stereotypes: Reproduction and Challenge / Mary Talbot --
• 21. Gender and Identity: Representation and Social Action / Ann Weatherall and Cindy Gallois -- 22. Prestige, Cultural Models, and Other Ways of Talking About Underlying Norms and Gender / Scott Fabius Kiesling -- 23. Communicating Gendered Professional Identity: Competence, Cooperation, and Conflict in the Workplace / Caja Thimm, Sabine C. Koch and Sabine Schey -- 24. Linguistic Sexism and Feminist Linguistic Activism / Anne Pauwels -- Pt. V. Institutional Discourse -- 25. "Feminine" Workplaces: Stereotype and Reality / Janet Holmes and Maria Stubbe -- 26. Creating Gendered Demeanors of Authority at Work and at Home / Shari Kendall -- 27. Schooled Language: Language and Gender in Educational Settings / Joan Swann -- 28. Coercing Gender: Language in Sexual Assault Adjudication Processes / Susan Ehrlich -- 29. Multiple Identities: The Roles of Female Parliamentarians in the EU Parliament / Ruth Wodak --
• Epilogue: Reflections on Language and Gender Research / Alice F. Freed.

ISBN

• 0631225021 (alk. paper)
• 0631195718 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2002006515

OCLC

• ocm49681248
• SCSB-4343600

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries