Overview

This volume offers a representative selection of Sally McConnell-Ginet's publications on language, gender and sexuality, which circle around the following themes: language users are actively engaged in making meanings, both as speakers and listeners; languages and socio-political institutions constrain, but do not determine, communicative possibilities; attention to language deepens understanding of gender and sexuality, including connections to ethnicity, class, race, and other dimensions of social identity and inequality.

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Author:   Sally McConnell-Ginet (Professor Emerita of Linguistics, Professor Emerita of Linguistics, Cornell University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.90cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 16.30cm
Weight:   0.522kg
ISBN:  

9780195187809

ISBN 10:   0195187806
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   08 December 2011
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

"Prelude Chapter 1 Gender, sexuality, and meaning: An overview Part I Politics and scholarship Chapter 2 Language and gender Chapter 3 Feminism in linguistics Chapter 4 Difference and language: A linguist's perspective Part II Social practice, social meanings, and selves Chapter 5 Communities of practice: Where language, gender, and power all live Chapter 6 Intonation in a man's world Chapter 7 Constructing meaning, constructing selves: Snapshots of language, gender, and class from Belten High Part III Constructing content in discourse Chapter 8 The sexual reproduction of meaning: A discourse-based theory Chapter 9 Prototypes, pronouns, and persons Chapter 10 ""What's in a name?"": Social labeling and gender practices Chapter 11 ""Queering"" semantics: Definitional struggles Coda Chapter 12 Breaking through the ""glass ceiling"": Can linguistic awareness help?"

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Sally McConnell-Ginet is Professor Emerita of Linguistics at Cornell University.

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