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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2011]
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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?