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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 ...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: McElhinny, Bonnie S., 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©2007.
Colección:Language, power, and social process ; 19.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.