• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1107659361
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1107659360
• Author: Penelope Eckert (Author), Sally McConnell-Ginet (Author)

Language and Gender is an introduction to the study of the relation between gender and language use, written by two leading experts in the field. This new edition, thoroughly updated and restructured, brings out more strongly an emphasis on practice and change, while retaining the broad scope of its predecessor and its accessible introductions which explain the key concepts in a non-technical way. The authors integrate issues of sexuality more thoroughly into the discussion, exploring more diverse gendered and sexual identities and practices. The core emphasis is on change, both in linguistic resources and their use and in gender and sexual ideologies and personae. This book explores how change often involves conflict and competing norms, both social and linguistic. Drawing on their own extensive research, as well as other key literature, the authors argue that the connections between language and gender are deep yet fluid, and arise in social practice.

Part I Gender Differences in Pronunciation and Grammar 7

1 Yanyuwa: “Men speak one way, women speak another” 13
John Bradley

2 Sex and Covert Prestige 20
Peter Trudgill

3 Linguistic Variation and Social Function 27
Jenny Cheshire

4 Girl-talk/Boy-talk: Sex Differences in Adolescent Speech 38
Edina Eisikovits

5 Black Women in the Rural South: Conservative and Innovative 49
Patricia C. Nichols

6 Gender and Sociolinguistic Variation 57
Penelope Eckert

Part II Gender and Conversational Practice 67

7 Complimenting – A Positive Politeness Strategy 71
Janet Holmes

8 Cooperation and Competition Across Girls’ Play Activities 89
Marjorie Harness Goodwin

9 Expressions of Gender: An Analysis of Pupils’ Gendered Discourse Styles in Small Group Classroom Discussions 112
Julia Davies

10 Gender and the Use of Exclamation Points in Computer- Mediated Communication: An Analysis of Exclamations Posted to Two Electronic Discussion Lists 126
Carol Waseleski

Part III Gender, Power, and Dominance in Mixed Talk 139

11 Women’s Place in Everyday Talk: Reflections on Parent–Child Interaction 143
Candace West and Don H. Zimmerman

12 The Sounds of Silence: How Men Silence Women in Marital Relations 153
Victoria Leto DeFrancisco

13 Talk Control: An Illustration from the Classroom of Problems in Analysing Male Dominance of Conversation 161
Joan Swann

14 Participation in Electronic Discourse in a “Feminist” Field 171
Susan C. Herring, Deborah A. Johnson and Tamra DiBenedetto

15 Zuiqian “Deficient Mouth”: Discourse, Gender and Domestic Violence in Urban China 183
Jie Yang

Part IV Same-Sex Talk 193

16 Gossip Revisited: Language in All-Female Groups 199
Jennifer Coates

17 “Why Be Normal?”: Language and Identity Practices in a Community of Nerd Girls 224
Mary Bucholtz

18 Hybrid or In Between Cultures: Traditions of Marriage in a Group of British Bangladeshi Girls 236
Pia Pichler

19 Performing Gender Identity: Young Men’s Talk and the Construction of Heterosexual Masculinity 250
Deborah Cameron

20 Pushing at the Boundaries: The Expression of Alternative Masculinities 263
Jennifer Coates

21 Playing the Straight Man: Displaying and Maintaining Male Heterosexuality in Discourse 275
Scott F. Kiesling

Part V Women’s Talk in the Public Domain 287

22 Female Speakers of Japanese in Transition 291
Katsue Akiba Reynolds

23 Governed by the Rules? The Female Voice in Parliamentary Debates 300
Sylvia Shaw

24 “Doing Femininity” at Work: More than Just Relational Practice 315
Janet Holmes and Stephanie Schnurr

25 Communities of Practice at Work: Gender, Facework and the Power of Habitus at an All-Female Police Station and a Feminist Crisis Intervention Center in Brazil 332
Ana Cristina Ostermann

26 Trial Discourse and Judicial Decision-Making: Constraining the Boundaries of Gendered Identities 356
Susan Ehrlich

Part VI Language, Gender, and Sexuality 371

27 Lesbian Bar Talk in Shinjuku, Tokyo 375
Hideko Abe

28 Boys’ Talk: Hindi, Moustaches and Masculinity in New Delhi 384
Kira Hall

29 Queering Gay Men’s English 401
William L. Leap

30 Indexing Polyphonous Identity in the Speech of African American Drag Queens 413
Rusty Barrett

31 Language and Sexuality in Spanish and English Dating Chats 430
Marisol del-Teso-Craviotto

Part VII Theoretical Debates (1): Gender or Power? 447

32 “Women’s Language” or “Powerless Language”? 451
William M. O’Barr and Bowman K. Atkins

33 Are “Powerless” Communication Strategies the Japanese Norm? 461
Patricia J. Wetzel

34 When the Doctor is a “Lady”: Power, Status and Gender in Physician–Patient Encounters 468
Candace West

Part VIII Theoretical Debates (2): Difference or Dominance? 483

35 A Cultural Approach to Male–Female Miscommunication 487
Daniel N. Maltz and Ruth A. Borker

36 Asymmetries: Women and Men Talking at Cross-Purposes 503
Deborah Tannen

37 Selling the Apolitical 518
Senta Troemel-Ploetz

Part IX Theoretical Debates (3): When is Gender Relevant? 529

38 Whose Text? Whose Context? 533
Emanuel A. Schegloff

39 Gender Relevance in Talk-in-Interaction and Discourse 548
Ann Weatherall

40 Yes, But Is It Gender? 551
Joan Swann

Part X New Directions in Language and Gender Research 569

41 Communities of Practice: Where Language, Gender, and Power All Live 573
Penelope Eckert and Sally McConnell–Ginet

42 Gender and Language Ideologies 583
Deborah Cameron

43 Social Constructionism, Postmodernism and Feminist Sociolinguistics 600
Janet Holmes

Index 611

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