Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics, Second Edition by Ehrlich, Susan -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics Title Page Copyright Dedication List of Figures List of Tables Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction: Language, Gender, and Sexuality

1. Introduction 2. Key Themes and Issues 3. Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes References

Part I: Theory and History

Chapter 1: The Feminist Foundations of Language, Gender, and Sexuality Research

1. Introduction: Linguistics and Feminism 2. Difference Feminisms 3. From Gender Difference to Gendered Experiences 4. Queering Feminism: From Gender to Sexuality and Back Again 5. A New Linguistic Turn? 6. Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes References

Chapter 2: Theorizing Gender in Sociolinguistics and Linguistic Anthropology: Toward Effective Interventions in Gender Inequity

1. Introduction 2. The Relationship of Gender to Sex and Sexuality 3. Gender as Activity and Relation 4. Gender and Political Economy 5. Conclusion Notes References

Chapter 3: Language and Desire

1. Theories of Desire 2. Investigating Desire in Language 3. Conclusion References

Part II: Methods

Chapter 4: Variation and Gender

1. Introduction 2. First and Second Waves of Variation Studies: Production of Gender Differences 3. Perceived Association and Meanings 4. Relativising the Generalisations about Gender and Variation 5. Form versus Function 6. Apparent Gender Paradox in Variation 7. The “Cultural” Turn 8. Social Constructionist Accounts of Variation 9. Situating Variation in Its Social Context 10. Conclusion References

Chapter 5: Sociophonetics, Gender, and Sexuality

1. Introduction 2. Pitch and Intonation 3. Vowels 4. Consonants 5. Voice Quality 6. New Horizons References

Chapter 6: Ethnographic Methods for Language and Gender Research

1. The Historical Emergence of Ethnography as Method 2. The Tools of Ethnography 3. Ethnography, Context, and Indexicality 4. Ethnographic Research on Language and Gender 5. Approaching Language and Gender Ethnographically Notes References

Chapter 7: Conversation Analysis in Language and Gender Studies

1. Turn-Taking, Interruption, and Cooperative Talk 2. Reviewing CA as a Method for Gender and Language Research Notes References

Chapter 8: Gender and Categorial Systematics

1. Introduction 2. Membership Categorization, Conversation Analysis, and Gender 3. Doing Membership Categorization Analysis 4. Example 1: Finding Patterns in Categorial Formulations 5. Example 2: “Going Categorial” in Sequential Environments 6. Example 3: Names as Categories 7. Gender and Categorial Systematics Note References

Chapter 9: Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis: Relevance for Current Gender and Language Research

1. Introduction 2. Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis 3. Key Principles of FCDA 4. Conclusion Notes References

Part III: Identities

Chapter 10: Language and Sexual Identities

1. Introduction 2. Situating the Study of Language and Sexual Identity 3. Language, Eroticism, and Identity 4. Sexual Identity and Identification 5. Conclusion References

Chapter 11: Exceptional Speakers: Contested and Problematized Gender Identities

1. Introduction 2. Footnote Effeminates and Feminists 3. The Woman 4. Hippies, Historians, and Homos 5. Sissies and Tomboys 6. Queers and the Rest of Us Acknowledgments References

Chapter 12: Language and Masculinity

1. Introduction 2. Theorizing Masculinity 3. Implicit and Explicit Approaches: When Did Masculinity Become “Marked” in Language and Gender Studies? 4. Communities of Practice and Ethnographic Methods 5. Hegemonic Masculinity, Performativity, and Other Poststructuralist Accounts 6. Methodological Debates, Gender Relevance, and the Limits of Context 7. “Gross Out”: A “Masculine” Discourse? 8. Conclusion Notes References

Chapter 13: Queering Masculinities

1. Introduction 2. Queer: What is It and What is It Good For? 3. Queer Troubles in Researching Language and Masculinities 4. “Roy Cohn is a Heterosexual Man who Fucks Around with Guys”: Queer Positions and Dominant Discourses 5. Imagining Queer Futures? Acknowledgments Note References

Part IV: Ideologies

Chapter 14: Gender and Language Ideologies

1. Introduction 2. Representing Language and Gender: Diversity and Change 3. Shifting Ideological Landscapes: The Rise of Men and the Return of Biologism 4. Representations and Realities Notes References

Chapter 15: The Power of Gender Ideologies In Discourse

1. The Political Roots of the Interest in Gender Ideology 2. Gender Ideology in Anthropology 3. Diversity in Gender Ideology 4. Institutional Contexts for Gender Ideologies in Discourse 5. Implications References

Chapter 16: Meaning-Making and Ideologies of Gender and Sexuality

1. Semantics/Pragmatics Overview 2. Terminological Preliminaries 3. Speakers Implicitly Exploiting (or Unwittingly Endorsing) Ideologies 4. Hearers Inferring: Ideologically Driven or Ideology-Reinforcing 5. Discourse Effects: Ideologies and Getting Things Done with Words 6. Return to Content Word Meanings: Ideological Struggles and Changing Contexts Notes References

Chapter 17: A Marked Man: The Contexts of Gender and Ethnicity

1. Introduction 2. Revealing Ethnic Gender 3. Conflicting Styles 4. Use and Construction of Models 5. Conclusion Acknowledgment Notes References

Part V: Global and Cross-Cultural Perspectives

Chapter 18: Language and Gender Research in Poland: An Overview

1. Historical Background: Gender Roles in Poland 2. Terminology 3. Major Themes in Language and Gender Research in Poland 4. Is the Linguistic Gender System “Sexist”? 5. “Feminist” Language Reform? 6. Gendered Interactional Styles 8. Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes References

Chapter 19: Historical Discourse Approach to Japanese Women's Language: Ideology, Indexicality, and Metalanguage

1. Introduction 2. Japanese Women's Language: Problems 3. Historical Discourse Approach to Women's Language 4. Theoretical Implications of the Historical Discourse Approach 5. Conclusion References

Chapter 20: Language and Gender in the Middle East and North Africa

1. Introduction 2. Arabic and Its Milieu 3. Research on Language Use and Code Choice 4. Variation in Vernacular Arabic and Gender Differentiation Acknowledgments Notes References

Chapter 21: Language and Gender Research in Brazil: An Overview

1. Introduction 2. Methodological and Organizational Notes 3. Variationist Studies in Brazil: Moving Out of Understanding Sex and Gender as Interchangeable and Essentialized Concepts 4. Discourse/Interaction Studies in Brazil: Moving Out of the Disciplinary Bounds in the Understanding of Language and Gender 5. And What Now? Looking Back and Forward at Studies on Language and Gender in Brazil Notes References

Part VI: Domains and Institutions

Chapter 22: Language and Gender in the Workplace

1. Introduction 2. Types of Workplace Interaction 3. Small Talk at Work 4. Gender and Workplace Identity 5. Gendered Workplaces 6. Conclusion 7. Acknowledgements Notes References

Chapter 23: Language, Gender, and Sexual Violence: Legal Perspectives

1. Introduction 2. Tracking Gendered Ideologies in Trial Discourse 3. Tracing Meaning Transformations in Women's Accounts of Violence 4. Conclusion Acknowledgment Notes References Cases Cited

Chapter 24: Language and Gender in Educational Contexts

1. Classroom Interaction Research 2. Literacy 3. Second- and Foreign-Language Learning 4. Conclusion Note References

Chapter 25: Gender and Family Interaction

1. Introduction 2. Power and Connection in the Family: Prior Research 3. The Ambiguity and Polysemy of Hierarchy and Connection 4. Mother: A Paradigm of the Ambiguity and Polysemy of Power and Connection 5. Power Lines—or Connection Lines—in Telling Your Day 6. Self-Revelation: A Gender-Specific Conversational Ritual 7. Balancing Power and Connection in a Family Argument 8. Gender and Family Interaction: Coda Acknowledgments References

Chapter 26: Language and Gender in Peer Interactions among Children and Youth

1. Introduction 2. Binary Views of Gender 3. Challenges to Separate Worlds Considering Class, Contextual Variation, and Power in Girls' Groups 4. Practices for Negotiating the Social Order in Children's Groups 5. Conclusion References

Chapter 27: Language and Gender in Adolescence

1. Adolescence as Ideology 2. School as Site for the Construction of Adolescence 3. Adolescents as Leaders in Linguistic Change 4. Policing Adolescent Language 5. Conclusion Notes References

Part VII: Engagement and Application

Chapter 28: Gender, Endangered Languages, and Revitalization

1. Why Gender? 2. The Blurriness of Gender among the Kaska (Athabaskans) 3. First Nations' Politics and Aboriginal Language Planning in the Yukon 4. Institutions and Axes of Regimentation 5. Norms, the Normative, and the Normal: Practical Intersections 6. Conclusion Notes References

Chapter 29: Gender and (A)nonymity in Computer-Mediated Communication

1. Introduction 2. Access and Use 3. Textual CMC 4. Multimodal CMC 5. Mobile CMC 6. Discussion 7. Conclusion Notes References

Chapter 30: “One Man in Two is a Woman”: Linguistic Approaches to Gender in Literary Texts

1. Introduction 2. Male and Female Literary Styles 3. Literary Uses of Linguistic Gender 4. Gender and Translation 5. Implications References

Chapter 31: Language, Gender, and Popular Culture

1. Introduction: Popular Culture 2. Magazines, Friendship, and Community 3. Broadcast Talk, Gendered Styles, and Professional Identities 4. Talking with the Television 5. Creative Engagement: Putting Gender on the Agenda 6. Concluding Remarks Notes References

Chapter 32: The Public View of Language and Gender: Still Wrong After All These Years

1. Language and Gender, 1973 to the Present 2. Media Trends: When Scholarly Work Goes Public 3. Quantitative Media Data 4. Conclusion 5. Postscript Notes References

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