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List of Tables | p. xi |
Acknowledgements | p. xiv |
Gender and the Language of Illness | p. 1 |
Introduction - sex, gender and identity | p. 1 |
Difference: Sex, sex roles and comparison | p. 4 |
Introduction | p. 4 |
Sex | p. 5 |
Sex roles | p. 6 |
Comparison of sex and sex roles | p. 8 |
Gender as performance | p. 11 |
Introduction | p. 11 |
Communities of practice | p. 12 |
Discourse | p. 14 |
Illness, language and social variables | p. 17 |
Illness and language | p. 17 |
Illness and gender | p. 19 |
Language and age | p. 21 |
Language and social class | p. 22 |
Summary | p. 24 |
Methods for Investigating Gender and Language | p. 25 |
Introduction | p. 25 |
Variationist sociolinguistics | p. 25 |
Corpus-based research | p. 28 |
Concepts related to corpus research | p. 32 |
Keywords | p. 32 |
Key concepts | p. 34 |
Keywords and key concepts compared | p. 36 |
Deriving discourses from keywords and key concepts | p. 41 |
Corpus and sub-corpora | p. 45 |
The full matched sample | p. 47 |
The social class (SEC) matched sample | p. 48 |
The age matched sample | p. 49 |
The specific illness sample | p. 49 |
Summary | p. 51 |
Men's Traditional Discourse of Illness: Distancing and Avoidance | p. 52 |
Introduction: Men and discourses of illness | p. 52 |
Linguistic strategy: Reification | p. 56 |
Linguistic strategy: Deictic distancing | p. 62 |
Linguistic strategy: Distancing through abstractions | p. 69 |
Introduction | p. 69 |
'Solution/s' | p. 73 |
'System/s' | p. 73 |
'Pattern/s' and 'technique/s' | p. 76 |
Discursive style: Avoidance through sports talk | p. 76 |
Discursive style: Swearing | p. 82 |
Summary | p. 85 |
A Feminine Discourse of Illness: Transformation and Modality | p. 87 |
Introduction | p. 87 |
Feminine discourse of illness | p. 90 |
Overview | p. 90 |
Verb analysis | p. 91 |
Feminine discursive style: Low modality | p. 95 |
Analysis of mental process verb (cognitive): 'Think/Thought' | p. 95 |
Analysis of mental process verb (cognitive): 'Mean' | p. 98 |
Elaboration | p. 99 |
Explanation | p. 100 |
Contrastive function | p. 101 |
Analysis of mental process verb (cognitive): 'Imagine' | p. 104 |
Analysis of mental process verb (cognitive): 'Know' | p. 106 |
Feminine discursive style: High modality | p. 109 |
Analysis of mental process verb (cognitive): 'Knew' | p. 109 |
Analysis of mental process verb (affective): 'Need' | p. 111 |
Analysis of mental process verb (affective): 'Want' | p. 116 |
Summary | p. 117 |
Emotional Disclosure: Socio-economic Classification, Age and Gender | p. 119 |
Introduction: Gender and emotion | p. 119 |
Socio-economic classification (SEC) | p. 124 |
Overview - Emotional disclosure | p. 124 |
Low SEC women | p. 129 |
High SEC men | p. 134 |
High SEC women | p. 141 |
Low SEC men | p. 145 |
Age and emotion | p. 147 |
Overview | p. 147 |
Younger men | p. 151 |
Younger women | p. 155 |
Older men | p. 157 |
Older women | p. 159 |
Summary | p. 161 |
Experience of Support: Gender, Class and Age | p. 162 |
Research on support | p. 162 |
The experience of support | p. 166 |
Overview | p. 166 |
Gender specific use of support-related lexis | p. 169 |
Socio-economic classification (SEC) | p. 171 |
Age | p. 172 |
Sources of support | p. 175 |
Men's sources of support: 'People: Male' and 'Belonging to a group' | p. 175 |
Women's sources of support: 'Kin' and 'family' | p. 180 |
Analysis of family | p. 180 |
Analysis of non-family | p. 184 |
Modes of communication | p. 185 |
Use of 'talk' | p. 187 |
Use of 'phone' | p. 189 |
Use of reported speech | p. 190 |
Use of 'write' | p. 192 |
Summary | p. 195 |
Illness Type and Gender | p. 196 |
Introduction | p. 196 |
The language of illness experience | p. 196 |
Heart disease | p. 201 |
Key concepts: Measurement and time | p. 201 |
Lifestyle change and self-transformation | p. 208 |
Interaction between heart disease and gender | p. 215 |
Overview | p. 215 |
Key concept analysis of gender and heart disease | p. 216 |
Summary | p. 225 |
Conclusion | p. 226 |
Men's Key Concepts (Full Matched Sample) | p. 230 |
Women's Key Concepts (Full Matched Sample) | p. 232 |
Significance Levels for Log-Likelihood Test | p. 234 |
Demographic Sample of the British National Corpus | p. 235 |
References | p. 237 |
Index | p. 24 |
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