Contents

Contributors

Editor’s Introduction

Author’s Introduction: Language and Woman’s Place Revisited


THE ORIGINAL TEXT with Annotations by the Author

Language and Woman’s Place

Part I: Language and Woman’s Place

Part II: Why Women Are Ladies

Annotations


COMMENTARIES

Part I: Contexts

1 Changing Places: Language and Woman’s Place in Context
MARY BUCHOLTZ

2 “Radical Feminist” as Label, Libel, and Laudatory Chant: The Politics of Theoretical Taxonomies in Feminist Linguistics
BONNIE MCELHINNY

3 Positioning Ideas and Gendered Subjects: “Women’s Language” Revisited
SALLY MCCONNELL-GINET

4 Language and Woman’s Place: Picking Up the Gauntlet
ANNA LIVIA

Part II: Concepts

5 Power, Lady, and Linguistic Politeness in Language and Woman’s Place
JANET HOLMES

6 Cultural Patterning in Language and Woman’s Place
DEBORAH TANNEN

7 The Good Woman
PENELOPE ECKERT

8 Language and Marginalized Places
KIRA HALL

Part III: Femininities

9 Exploring Women’s Language in Japanese
SACHIKO IDE

10 “Women’s Language” and Martha Stewart: From a Room of One’s Own to a Home of One’s Own to a Corporation of One’s Own
CATHERINE EVANS DAVIES

11 Public Discourse and the Private Life of Little Girls: Language and Woman’s Place and Language Socialization
JENNY COOK-GUMPERZ

12 Mother’s Place in Language and Woman’s Place
SHARI KENDALL

Part IV: Power

13 Doing and Saying: Some Words on Women’s Silence
MIRIAM MEYERHOFF

14 Computer-Mediated Communication and Woman’s Place
SUSAN C. HERRING

15 Linguistic Discrimination and Violence against Women: Discursive Practices and Material Effects
SUSAN EHRLICH

16 What Does a Focus on “Men’s Language” Tell Us about Language and Woman’s Place?
SCOTT FABIUS KIESLING

Part V: Women’s Places

17 Gender, Identity, and “Strong Language” in a Professional Woman’s Talk
JUDITH MATTSON BEAN AND BARBARA JOHNSTONE

18 The New (and Improved?) Language and Place of Women in Japan
YOSHIKO MATSUMOTO

19 “I’m Every Woman”: Black Women’s (Dis) placement in Women’s Language Study
MARCYLIENA MORGAN

20 The Anguish of Normative Gender: Sociolinguistic Studies among U.S. Latinas
NORMA MENDOZA-DENTON

21 Contradictions of the Indigenous Americas: Feminist Challenges to and from the Field
SARA TRECHTER

Part VI: Sexualities

22 Language and Woman’s Place: Blueprinting Studies of Gay Men’s English
WILLIAM L. LEAP

23 The Way We Wish We Were: Sexuality and Class in Language and Woman’s Place
RUDOLF P. GAUDIO

24 “I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar”: The Importance of Linguistic Stereotype for Lesbian Identity Performances
ROBIN QUEEN

25 As Much as We Use Language: Lakoff’s Queer Augury
RUSTY BARRETT

Index