Language and GenderThis is a new introduction to the study of the relation between gender and language use, written by two of the leading experts in the field. It covers the main topics, beginning with a clear discussion of gender and of the resources that the linguistic system offers for the construction of social meaning. The body of the book offers unprecedented breadth and depth in its coverage of the interaction between language and social life. It is the ideal textbook for students in language and gender courses in several disciplines, including linguistics, gender studies, women's studies, sociology, and anthropology. |
Contents
Constructing deconstructing and reconstructing gender | 7 |
Sex and gender | 8 |
Learning to be gendered | 13 |
the gender order | 30 |
Masculinities and femininities | 45 |
Gender practice | 48 |
Linking the linguistic to the social | 50 |
Changing practices changing ideologies | 51 |
Saying and implying | 188 |
Aspects of meaning in communicative practice | 191 |
gender schemas and ideologies | 199 |
Assigning roles and responsibility | 203 |
Making metaphors | 209 |
Mapping the world | 224 |
Category boundaries and criteria | 228 |
Category relations | 238 |
The social locus of change | 53 |
Linguistic resources | 58 |
Analytic practice | 77 |
A matter of method | 82 |
Organizing talk | 89 |
Access to situations and events | 90 |
Speech activities | 96 |
Speech situations and events | 101 |
The pursuit of conversation | 107 |
Conversational styles and conversationalists character | 120 |
Making social moves | 127 |
Speech act theory | 128 |
gender oppositions | 131 |
Speech acts embedded in social action | 142 |
Beyond conversation | 154 |
Positioning ideas and subjects | 155 |
Womens language and gendered positioning | 156 |
Showing deference or respect? | 158 |
Backing down or opening things up? | 163 |
Who cares? intensity and engagement | 172 |
Calibrating commitment and enlisting support | 179 |
Speaking indirectly | 184 |
Elaborating marked concepts | 242 |
category imperialism | 250 |
Genderizing processes | 255 |
New labels new categories | 257 |
Working the market use of varieties | 262 |
The linguistic market | 267 |
The local and the global | 269 |
Language ideologies and linguistic varieties | 272 |
standardization and the Japanese woman | 274 |
Gender and language ideologies | 277 |
Gender and the use of linguistic varieties | 278 |
Access | 284 |
Whose speech is more standard? | 288 |
Fashioning selves | 301 |
Stylistic practice | 302 |
Style and performativity | 311 |
Legitimate and illegitimate performances | 316 |
One small step | 321 |
Where are we headed? | 326 |
Bibliography | 329 |
Index | 353 |
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Common terms and phrases
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References to this book
American English: Dialects and Variation Walt Wolfram,Natalie Schilling-Estes No preview available - 2005 |