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Words, Worlds, and Material Girls : Language, Gender, Globalization.

This wide-ranging volume explores how gender and language are used and transformed to discuss, enact, and project social differences in light of global economic and political changes in the late nineteenth, twentieth, and early twenty-first centuries. It presents analyses of language and gender from...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McElhinny, Bonnie S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, 2008.
Colección:Language, power, and social process.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This wide-ranging volume explores how gender and language are used and transformed to discuss, enact, and project social differences in light of global economic and political changes in the late nineteenth, twentieth, and early twenty-first centuries. It presents analyses of language and gender from a broad spectrum of national contexts: Catalonia, Canada, China, India, Japan, Nigeria, Vietnam, Philippines, Tonga, and the United States. Cases studies consider language and gender in changing workplaces, schools and immigrant integration workshops, as well as in new and emerging sites for consum.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (460 pages)
ISBN:9783110198805
3110198800