Significantly expanded and updated, the second edition of The Handbook of Language, Gender and Sexuality brings together a team of the leading specialists in the field to create a comprehensive overview of key historical themes and issues, along with methodologies and cutting-edge research topics.
- Examines the dynamic ways that women and men develop and manage gendered identities through their talk, presenting data and case studies from interactions in a range of social contexts and different communities
- Substantially updated for the second edition, including a new introduction, 24 newly-commissioned chapters, ten updated chapters, and a comprehensive index
- Includes new chapters on research in non-English speaking countries – from Asia to South America – and cutting-edge topics such as language, gender, and popular culture; language and sexual identities; and language, gender, and socio-phonetics
- New sections focus on key themes and issues in the field, such as methodological approaches to language and gender, incorporating new chapters on conversation analysis, critical discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, and variation theory
- Provides unrivalled geographic coverage and an essential resource for a wide range of disciplines, from linguistics, psychology, sociology, and anthropology to communication and gender studies
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List of Tables |
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Notes on Contributors |
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Acknowledgments |
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Introduction: Language, Gender, and Sexuality |
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Part I Theory And History |
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1 The Feminist Foundations Of Language, Gender, And Sexuality Research |
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2 Theorizing Gender In Sociolinguistics And Linguistic Anthropology: Toward Effective Interventions In Gender Inequity |
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48 | (20) |
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68 | (17) |
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Part II Methods |
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87 | (16) |
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5 Sociophonetics, Gender, And Sexuality |
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6 Ethnographic Methods For Language And Gender Research |
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7 Conversation Analysis In Language And Gender Studies |
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8 Gender And Categorial Systematics |
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161 | (19) |
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9 Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis: Relevance For Current Gender And Language Research |
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180 | (21) |
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Part III Identities |
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10 Language And Sexual Identities |
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203 | (17) |
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11 Exceptional Speakers: Contested And Problematized Gender Identities |
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220 | (20) |
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12 Language And Masculinity |
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240 | (20) |
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13 Queering Masculinities |
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260 | (19) |
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Part IV Ideologies |
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14 Gender And Language Ideologies |
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15 The Power Of Gender Ideologies In Discourse |
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297 | (19) |
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16 Meaning-Making And Ideologies Of Gender And Sexuality |
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316 | (19) |
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17 A Marked Man: The Contexts Of Gender And Ethnicity |
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335 | (18) |
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Part V Global And Cross-Cultural Perspectives |
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18 Language And Gender Research In Poland: An Overview |
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Agnieszka Kielkiewicz-Janowiak |
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19 Historical Discourse Approach To Japanese Women's Language: Ideology, Indexicality, And Metalanguage |
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378 | (18) |
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20 Language And Gender In The Middle East And North Africa |
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396 | (16) |
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21 Language And Gender Research In Brazil: An Overview |
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Part VI Domains And Institutions |
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22 Language And Gender In The Workplace |
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433 | (19) |
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23 Language, Gender, And Sexual Violence: Legal Perspectives |
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452 | (19) |
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24 Language And Gender In Educational Contexts |
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471 | (20) |
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25 Gender And Family Interaction |
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491 | (18) |
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26 Language And Gender In Peer Interactions Among Children And Youth |
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27 Language And Gender In Adolescence |
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529 | (18) |
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Part VII Engagement And Application |
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28 Gender, Endangered Languages, And Revitalization |
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549 | (18) |
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29 Gender And (A)nonymity In Computer-Mediated Communication |
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567 | (20) |
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30 "One Man In Two Is A Woman": Linguistic Approaches To Gender In Literary Texts |
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587 | (17) |
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31 Language, Gender, And Popular Culture |
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604 | (21) |
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32 The Public View Of Language And Gender: Still Wrong After All These Years |
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Index |
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Susan Ehrlich is Professor of Linguistics at York University, Toronto, Canada. She is the author of Representing Rape: Language and Sexual Consent (2001), and co-editor of "Why Do You Ask?": The Function of Questions in Institutional Discourse (with Alice Freed, 2010) and Discursive Constructions of Consent in the Legal Process (with Diana Eades and Janet Ainsworth, 2016).
Miriam Meyerhoff is Professor of Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She is co-editor of Social Lives in Language: Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities (with Naomi Nagy, 2008), Doing Sociolinguistics (with Erik Schleef and Laurel Mackenzie, 2015), Bequia Talk (with James A. Walker, 2013), The Sociolinguistics Reader (with Erik Schleef, 2010) and is the author of Introducing Sociolinguistics, Second Edition (2011).
Janet Holmes is Emeritus Professor in Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand and Associate Director of the Wellington Language in the Workplace project. She is the author of Gendered Talk at Work (Blackwell, 2006), An Introduction to Sociolinguistics, fourth edition (Pearson, 2013) and co-editor (with Kirk Hazen) of Research Methods in Sociolinguistics (Wiley Blackwell, 2014).