Reinventing Identities The Gendered Self in Discourse

Talk is crucial to the way our identities are constructed, altered, and defended. Feminist scholars in particular have only begun to investigate how deeply language reflects and shapes who we think we are. This volume of previously unpublished essays, the first in the new series Studies in Language and Gender , advances that effort by bringing together leading feminist scholars in the area of language and gender, including Deborah Tannen, Jennifer Coates, and Marcyliena Morgan, as well as rising younger scholars. Topics explored include African-American drag queens, gender and class on the shopping channel, and talk in the workplace.

Mary Bucholtz is Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Discourse Studies in the Department of English at Texas A&M University A. C. Liang is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Eric Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas Laurel A. Sutton is co-founder of Catchword. She continues to pursue a Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley