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Language and Gender Sara Mills

Language and Gender By Sara Mills

Language and Gender by Sara Mills


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This is an interdisciplinary volume, examining the important themes in the current theoretical debates on language and gender. Comprising chapters from leading linguists, it aims to bring together debate between the areas of linguistics/language studies and literature/literary studies.

Language and Gender Summary

Language and Gender: Interdisciplinary Perspectives by Sara Mills

This volume examines important themes in the theoretical debates on the relationship of language and gender. It analyses this relationship across a range of different disciplinary perspectives from linguistics, literary theory, cultural studies and visual analysis. The focus of the book goes beyond an analysis of women's language to discuss the complexities of gendered language with chapters on lesbian poetics, the language of girls and boys and the relationship between gender and genre.

About Sara Mills

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Table of Contents

List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction, Sara Mills

Section 1: Position Papers: Difference or Dominance
1. Language, gender and career, Jennifer Coates
2. Rethinking language and gender studies: some issues for the 1990s, Deborah Cameron

Section 2: Lesbian Poetics
3. Constructing a lesbian poetic for survival, Liz Yorke
4. Sappho and the other woman, Margaret Williamson
5. `Her wench of bliss: gender and the language of Djuna Barnes' Ladies Almanack, Deborah Tyler-Bennett

Section 3: Gender/Genre
6. Cyborgs and cyberpunk: rewriting the feminine in popular fiction, Jenny Wolmark
7. Claiming the speakwrite: linguistic subversion in the feminist dystopia, Elisabeth Mahoney

Section 4: Gender, Language and Education
8. Feminising classroom talk?, Joan Swann and David Graddol
9. Primary school teachers' explanation of boys' disruptiveness in the classroom: a gender-specific aspect of the hidden curriculum, Cleopatra Altani
10. `We're boys, miss!': finding gendered identities and looking for gendering of identities in the foreign language classroom, Jane Sunderland

Section 5: Gender, Language and Children
11. Dominance and communicative incompetence: the speech habits of a group of 8-11 year old boys in a Lebanese rural community, Farida Abu-Haidar
12. Voice and gender in children, Alison Lee, Nigel Hewlett and Moray Nairn

Section 6: Language Media/Visual Analysis and Gender
13. Feminism, language and the rhetoric of TV wildlife programmes, Barbara Crowther and Dick Leith
14. Man in the news: the misrepresentation of women speaking in news-as-narrative-discourse, Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard
15. Commonplaces: the woman in the street: text and gender in the work of Jenny Holzer and Barbara Kruger, Helen Mills

Conclusions, Sara Mills

Bibliography
Index

Additional information

GOR002903482
9780582226319
0582226317
Language and Gender: Interdisciplinary Perspectives by Sara Mills
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
19950922
296
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