Reinventing Identities The Gendered Self in Discourse

by Bucholtz, Mary; Liang, A. C.; Sutton, Laurel A.

• ISBN13: 9780195126303
• ISBN10: 0195126300
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-09-02
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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 This volume of previously unpublished essays, the first in the new series Studies in Language and Gender , advances that effort by bringing together leading feminist scholars in the area of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.

Author Biography

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

Table of Contents

Contributors	xiii
Bad Examples: Transgression and Progress in Language and Gender Studies	3	(24)
Mary Bucholtz
Part I Identity as Invention
No Woman, No Cry: Claiming African American Women's Place	27	(19)
Marcyliena Morgan
Coherent Identities amid Heterosexist Ideologies: Deaf and Hearing Lesbian Coming-Out Stories	46	(18)
Kathleen M. Wood
Good Guys and ``Bad'' Girls: Identity Construction by Latina and Latino Student Writers	64	(19)
Marjorie Faulstich Orellana
Constructing the Irrational Woman: Narrative Interaction and Agoraphobic Identity	83	(18)
Lisa Capps
Contextualizing the Exotic Few: Gender Dichotomies in Lakhota	101	(22)
Sara Trechter
Part II Identity as Ideology
Changing Femininities: The Talk of Teenage Girls	123	(22)
Jennifer Coates
Rebaking the Pie: The Woman as Dessert Metaphor	145	(18)
Caitlin Hines
All Media Are Created Equal: Do-It-Yourself Identity in Alternative Publishing	163	(18)
Laurel A. Sutton
Strong Language, Strong Actions: Native American Women Writing against Federal Authority	181	(19)
Rebecca J. Dobkins
``Opening the Door of Paradise a Cubit'': Educated Tunisian Women, Embodied Linguistic Practice, and Theories of Language and Gender	200	(21)
Keith Walters
Part III Identity as Ingenuity
The Display of (Gendered) Identities in Talk at Work	221	(20)
Deborah Tannen
Gender, Context, and the Narrative Construction of Identity: Rethinking Models of ``Women's Narrative,''	241	(18)
Patricia E. Sawin
Language, Socialization, and Silence in Gay Adolescence	259	(14)
William Leap
Turn-Initial No: Collaborative Opposition among Latina Adolescents	273	(20)
Norma Mendoza-Denton
Conversationally Implicating Lesbian and Gay Identity	293	(20)
A.C. Liang
Part IV Identity as Improvisation
Indexing Polyphonous Identity in the Speech of African American Drag Queens	313	(19)
Rusty Barrett
``She Sired Six Children'': Feminist Experiments with Linguistic Gender	332	(16)
Anna Livia
Purchasing Power: The Gender and Class Imaginary on the Shopping Channel	348	(21)
Mary Bucholtz
From Folklore to ``News at 6'': Maintaining Language and Reframing Identity through the Media	369	(19)
Colleen Cotter
Constructing Opposition within Girls' Games	388	(23)
Marjorie Harness Goodwin
Name Index	411	(6)
Subject Index	417