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Language and Gender

by Talbot, Mary

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2nd

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9780745646053

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0745646050

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6/8/2010

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Polity

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This new edition of Language and Gender has been thoroughly revised and updated, including the addition of entirely new chapters that explore recent work in the field. A range of approaches is covered at an introductory level, presenting sometimes difficult and complex issues in an understandable way. Every chapter concludes with a list of recommended readings so that each topic can be taken further. Like the first edition, it will be popular with students for its accessibility and with teachers for the range and depth it achieves in a single volume.As in the first edition, the book is organised into three parts. An introductory section provides preliminary grounding in early ls"classic' studies in the field. In the second section, Talbot examines the language used by women and men in a variety of speech situation and genres. She addresses a range of issues and problems, including the difficulties arising from accounting for gender differences in terms of dichotomies like public vs private and informational vs affective ETH; and, not least, the trouble with looking for ls"differences' at all.Talbot's emphasis, however, is on recent research. The last and largest section examines not gender difference but the construction and performance of gender in discourse. It includes new chapters outlining recent research on women's talk in public contexts and on language, gender and sexualities. The section as a whole reflects both the high degree of interest in mass media and popular culture found in recent language and gender research and the preoccupation with discourse and social change that is central to Critical Discourse Analysis.The second edition of Language and Gender will become a key textbook for undergraduates and postgraduates in linguistics, sociolinguistics, cultural and media studies, gender studies and communication studies. The book is usable by students for whom it their first, or only, contact with sociolinguistics.

Author Biography

Mary M. Talbot is Secretary of the International Gender and Language Association

List of figures and tables	p. x
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Transcription conventions	p. xii
Preliminaries: Airing Stereotypes and Early Models	p. 1
Language and gender	p. 3
About this book	p. 3
Linguistic sex differentiation	p. 4
Sex versus gender	p. 7
Sex and gender as troublesome dichotomies	p. 12
Why is language study important for feminism?	p. 15
Further reading	p. 17
Talking proper	p. 18
Women, men and 'Standard' English	p. 18
Sex, gender and voice quality	p. 29
Further reading	p. 32
'Women's language' and 'man made language'	p. 34
Early interest	p. 34
'Women's language'	p. 35
'Man made language'	p. 42
Conclusion and lead-in to part II	p. 46
Further reading	p. 47
Interaction among Women and Men	p. 49
Telling stories	p. 51
Studying stories	p. 51
Story content	p. 52
A couple tell a story	p. 55
At the family dinner-table	p. 61
Generalizing from research findings	p. 73
Further reading	p. 73
Conversation	p. 75
Conversation as a genre	p. 75
The conversational division of labour	p. 76
Miscommunication	p. 80
Politeness	p. 84
Men's and women's interactional styles	p. 91
Equal but different?	p. 95
Further reading	p. 96
Difference-and-dominance and beyond	p. 98
Deficit, dominance and difference	p. 98
The trouble with 'dominance'	p. 101
The trouble with 'difference'	p. 102
The reification of gender as 'difference'	p. 109
Beyond difference: the influence of poststructuralism	p. 110
Further reading	p. 113
Discourse and Gender: Construction and Performance	p. 115
Critical perspectives on gender identity	p. 117
Why critical?	p. 117
Discourse and discourses	p. 118
Gender identity and subject positioning	p. 123
The discursive construction of maternity	p. 128
Examining constructions of gender identity	p. 134
Further reading	p. 135
Consumerism	p. 137
Femininity	p. 137
Women and consumerism	p. 138
Multiple voices in magazines	p. 143
The voice of a friend	p. 150
Men as consumers	p. 155
Further reading	p. 158
New men and old boys	p. 159
Masculinities	p. 159
Dominance and control	p. 163
The importance of being hetero	p. 169
Change and resistance	p. 176
Further reading	p. 183
Public talk	p. 184
Women and the public sphere	p. 184
Politics	p. 186
Broadcast interviews	p. 191
Women in charge: dealing with the double-bind	p. 196
Media representations of working women	p. 200
Further reading	p. 202
Language, gender and sexuality	p. 204
Queering gender	p. 204
Heteronorms	p. 207
Homosociality among male university students	p. 209
The sexual politics of consent	p. 211
Resisting heteronormative identities	p. 218
Further reading	p. 223
Reclaiming the language	p. 224
Sexism	p. 224
Modes of struggle	p. 227
Counter-resistance	p. 234
What is 'political correctness'?	p. 237
Further reading	p. 242
References	p. 243
Index	p. 265
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