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Gender, sexuality, and meaning : linguistic practice and politics /

"This volume collects Sally McConnell-Ginet's most important published articles in the last twenty years, which circle around the following themes: language users are actively engaged in making meanings, both as speakers and listeners; linguistics systems and socio-political institutions c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McConnell-Ginet, Sally (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, [2011]
Colección:Studies in language and gender.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Gender, sexuality, and meaning: An overview
  • Part I. Politics and scholarship. 2. Language and gender
  • 3. Feminism in linguistics
  • 4. Difference and language: A linguist's perspective
  • Part II. Social practice, social meanings, and selves. 5. Communities of practice: Where language, gender, and power all live
  • 6. Intonation in a man's world
  • 7. Constructing meaning, constructing selves: Snapshots of language, gender, and class from Belten High
  • Part III. Constructing content in discourse. 8. The sexual (re)production of meaning: A discourse-based theory
  • 9. Prototypes, pronouns, and persons
  • 10. What's in a name?: Social labeling and gender practices
  • 11. Queering semantics: Definitional struggles
  • Coda: 12. Breaking through the 'glass ceiling': Can linguistic awareness help?