The Handbook Of Language And Gender

The Handbook of Language and Gender is a collection of articles written by leading specialists in the field that examines the dynamic ways in which women and men develop and manage gendered identities through their talk.Provides a comprehensive, up-to-date, and stimulating picture of the field for students and researchers in a wide range of disciplinesFeatures data and case studies from interactions in different social contexts and from a range of different communities

Janet Holmes holds a personal Chair in Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington and is Director of the Wellington Language in the Workplace Project and the Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English. She is the author of numerous books and articles, including Introduction to Sociolinguistics (second edition, 2001) and Women, Men and Politeness (1995). She is editor of Gendered Speech in Social Context (2000).

Miriam Meyerhoff is Reader in Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh, before which she was Assistant Professor at the University of Hawai'i, Manoa. She has published articles on language and gender, language change in creoles, and is the author of Constraints on Null Subjects in Bislama (Vanuatu) (2000).

Notes on Contributors

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Acknowledgments

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Different Voices, Different Views: An Introduction to Current Research in Language and Gender

1

(18)

Janet Holmes

Miriam Meyerhoff

Part I History and Theoretical Background to the Study of Language and Gender

19

(140)

Theorizing Gender in Sociolinguistics and Linguistic Anthropology

21

(22)

Bonnie McElhinny

Theories of Discourse as Theories of Gender: Discourse Analysis in Language and Gender Studies

43

(26)

Mary Bucholtz

``What's in a Name?'' Social Labeling and Gender Practices

69

(29)

Sally McConnell-Ginet

Variation in Language and Gender

98

(21)

Suzanne Romaine

Language and Desire

119

(23)

Don Kulick

``One Man in Two is a Woman'': Linguistic Approaches to Gender in Literary Texts

142

(17)

Anna Livia

Part II Negotiating Relations

159

(118)

Language, Gender, and Politics: Putting ``Women'' and ``Power'' in the Same Sentence

161

(18)

Robin Lakoff

Gender and Family Interaction

179

(23)

Deborah Tannen

Gender and Power in On-line Communication

202

(27)

Susan C. Herring

The Relevance of Ethnicity, Class, and Gender in Children's Peer Negotiations

229

(23)

Marjorie Harness Goodwin

The Power of Gender Ideologies in Discourse

252

(25)

Susan U. Philips

Part III Authenticity and Place

277

(168)

Crossing Genders, Mixing Languages: The Linguistic Construction of Transgenderism in Tonga

279

(23)

Niko Besnier

Claiming a Place: Gender, Knowledge, and Authority as Emergent Properties

302

(25)

Miriam Meyerhoff

Constructing and Managing Male Exclusivity in Talk-in-interaction

327

(26)

Jack Sidnell

Exceptional Speakers: Contested and Problematized Gender Identities

353

(28)

Kira Hall

Language and Gender in Adolescence

381

(20)

Penelope Eckert

Language and Gendered Modernity

401

(22)

William L. Leap

A Marked Man: The Contexts of Gender and Ethnicity

423

(22)

Sara Trechter

Part IV Stereotypes and Norms

445

(126)

Gender and Language Ideologies

447

(21)

Deborah Cameron

Gender Stereotypes: Reproduction and Challenge

468

(19)

Mary Talbot

Gender and Identity: Representation and Social Action

487

(22)

Ann Weatherall

Cindy Gallois

Prestige, Cultural Models, and Other Ways of Talking About Underlying Norms and Gender

509

(19)

Scott Fabius Kiesling

Communicating Gendered Professional Identity: Competence, Cooperation, and Conflict in the Workplace

528

(22)

Caja Thimm

Sabine C. Koch

Sabine Schey

Linguistic Sexism and Feminist Linguistic Activism

550

(21)

Anne Pauwels

Part V Institutional Discourse

571

(128)

``Feminine'' Workplaces: Stereotype and Reality

573

(27)

Janet Holmes

Maria Stubbe

Creating Gendered Demeanors of Authority at Work and at Home

600

(24)

Shari Kendall

Schooled Language: Language and Gender in Educational Settings

624

(21)

Joan Swann

Coercing Gender: Language in Sexual Assault Adjudication Processes

645

(26)

Susan Ehrlich

Multiple Identities: The Roles of Female Parliamentarians in the EU Parliament

671

(28)

Ruth Wodak

Epilogue: Reflections on Language and Gender Research

699

(23)

Alice F. Freed

Index

722

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