Language and Gender A Reader

by Coates, Jennifer; Pichler, Pia

• ISBN13: 9781405191449
• ISBN10: 1405191449
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-03-14
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The new edition of Language and Gender: A Reader responds to the wealth of research that has shaped the field since its initial publication in 1998. Retaining many of the foundational entries that have made the volume so popular, the second edition has been fully revised, and now includes 23 new articles and two entirely new sections. A fully revised new edition of this popular Reader which explores the widening range of language and gender research, both geographically and socially, along with changing theoretical and methodological approaches Combines the very latest research with classic works that established the field Features 23 new articles spanning 1997-2009 and two new sections on language, gender and sexuality, and the relevance of gender in the analysis of spoken interaction Draws on research from all over the world, including Brazil, China, and Japan, as well as North America and Europe Discusses a wide range of topics including single and mixed-sex talk; language, gender and power; gendered talk in the public domain; and language, gender and sexuality. Includes accessible introductions to each section, which contextualize each entry

Author Biography

Jennifer Coates is Professor Emeritus of English Language and Linguistics at Roehampton University London. She is author of Women Talk (Wiley-Blackwell, 1996), Men Talk: Stories in the Making of Masculinities (Wiley-Blackwell, 2003), Women, Men and Language (3^rd edition, 2004), and The Sociolinguistics of Narrative (edited with Joanna Thornborrow, 2005). She was made a Fellow of the English Association in 2002.

Pia Pichler is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is co-editor of Gender and Spoken Interaction (with Eva Eppler, 2009), and author of Talking Young Femininities (2009).

Table of Contents

Gender differences in pronunciation and grammar

John Bradley 'Yanyuwa: 'Men speak one way, women speak another'

Peter Trudgill 'Sex and covert prestige'

Jenny Cheshire 'Linguistic variation and social function'

Edina Eisikovits 'Girl-talk/boy-talk: sex differences in adolescent speech'

Patricia Nichols 'Black women in the rural south: conservative and innovative'

Penelope Eckert 'Gender and sociolinguistic variation'

ender and conversational practice

Janet Holmes Complimenting - a positive politeness strategy'

Marjorie Goodwin 'Cooperation and Competition across girls' play activities'

Julia Davies 'Expressions of gender: an analysis of pupils' gendered discourse styles in small group classroom discussions'

Carole Waseleski 'Gender and the use of exclamation points in computer mediated communication: An analysis of exclamations postedto two electronic discussion lists'

Power and dominance in mixed talk

Candace West & Don H. Zimmerman 'Women's place in everyday talk: reflections on parent-child interaction'

Victoria DeFrancisco 'The sounds of silence: how men silence women in marital relations'

Joan Swann 'Talk control: an illustration from the classroom of problems in analysing male dominance in conversation'

Susan Herring et al. 'Participation in electronic discourse in a "feminist" field'

Jie Yang 'Zuiqian Üdeficient mouth": discourse, gender and domestic violence in urban China'

Same-sex talk

Jennifer Coates 'Gossip revisited: language in all-female groups'

Mary Bucholtz 'Why be normal? Language and identity practices in a community of nerd girls.'

Pia Pichler 'Hybrid or In Between cultures: traditions of marriage in a group of British Bangladeshi girls'

Deborah Cameron 'Performing gender identity: young men's talk and the construction of heterosexual masculinity'

Jennifer Coates 'Pushing at the boundaries: the expression of alternative masculinities'

Scott Kiesling 'Playing the straight man: displaying and maintaining male heterosexuality in discourse'

Gendered talk in the public domain

Katsue Akiba Reynolds 'Female speakers of Japanese in transition'

Sylvia Shaw 'Governing by the rules? The female voice in parliamentary debates'

Holmes, Janet & Schnurr, Stephanie 'Doing "femininity" at work: more than just relational practice'

Ana Cristina Ostermann 'Communities of practice at work: gender, facework and the power of habitus at an all-female police station and a feminist crisis interventions centre in Brazil'

Susan Ehrlich 'Trial discourse and judicial decision-making: constraining the boundaries of gendered identities'

Language, gender and sexuality

Hideko Abe 'Lesbian bar talk in Shinjuku, Tokyo'

Kira Hall 'Boys' talk: Hindi, moustaches, and masculinity in New Delhi'

William L Leap 'Queering gay men's English'

Rusty Barratt 'Indexing polyphonous identity in the speech of African American drag queens'

Marisol Del-Teso-Craviotto 'Language and sexuality in English and Spanish dating chats'

Theoretical debates (1): Gender or power?

William O'Barr & Bowman Atkins 'Women's language' or 'powerless language'?

Patricia J. Wetzel 'Are "powerless" communication strategies the Japanese norm?

Candace West 'When the doctor is a lady: power, status and gender in physician-patient encounters'

Theoretical debates (2): Difference or dominance?

Daniel Maltz & Ruth Borker 'A cultural approach to male-female communication'

Deborah Tannen 'Asymmetries: women and men talking at cross purposes'

Senta Troemel-Ploetz 'Selling the apolitical'

Theoretical debates (3): When is gender relevant?

Emanuel Schegloff 'Whose text, whose context?'

Ann Weatherall 'Gender-relevance in talk-in interaction and discourse'

Joan Swann 'Yes, but is it gender?'

New directions in language and gender research

Penelope Eckert & Sally McConnell-Ginet 'Communities of practice: where language, gender and power all live'

Deborah Cameron 'Gender and language ideologies'

Janet Holmes 'Social constructionism, postmodernism and feminist sociolinguistics'

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