Words, worlds, and material girls : language, gender, globalization /
This wide-ranging volume focuses on changes in language and gender in ten different national sites as a result of globalization. The papers draw on a variety of sociolinguistic methodologies to consider workplaces, schools, media discourse, beauty pageants, musical stars, and marriages in which ...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
Mouton de Gruyter,
©2007.
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Colección: | Language, power, and social process ;
19. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Language, gender and economies in global transitions : provocative and provoking questions about how gender is articulated / Bonnie McElhinny
- Symbolically central and materially marginal : women's talk in a Tongan work group / Susan U. Philips
- "Re-employment stars" : language, gender and neoliberal restructuring in China / Jie Yang
- When Aboriginal equals "at risk" : the impact of institutional discourse on Aboriginal Head Start families / Susanne Miskimmin
- Stage goddesses and studio divas in South India : on agency and the politics of voice / Amanda Weidman
- Echoes of modernity : nationalism and the enigma of "women's language" in late nineteenth century Japan / Miyako Inoue
- Recontextualizing the American occupation of the Philippines : erasure and ventriloquism in colonial discourse around men, medicine and infant mortality / Bonnie McElhinny
- Out on video : gender, language and new public spheres in Islamic northern Nigeria / Rudolf P. Gaudio
- Gender and bilingualism in the new economy / Monica Heller
- African women in Catalan language courses : struggles over class, gender and ethnicity in advanced liberalism / Joan Pujolar
- Gender, multilingualism and the American war in Vietnam / Binh Nguyen
- Shop talk : branding, consumption and gender in American middle-class youth interaction / Mary Bucholtz
- Cosmopolitanism and linguistic capital in China : language, gender and the transition to a globalized market economy in Beijing / Qing Zhang
- Gender and interaction in a globalizing world : negotiating the gendered self in Tonga / Niko Besnier.