The Handbook of Language, Gender, and Sexuality (Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1119384206 ISBN 13: 9781119384205

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell, 2017

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Significantly expanded and updated, the second edition of The Handbook of Language, Gender and Sexuality brings together a team of the leading specialists in the field to create a comprehensive overview of key historical themes and issues, along with methodologies and cutting-edge research topics.

• Examines the dynamic ways that women and men develop and manage gendered identities through their talk, presenting data and case studies from interactions in a range of social contexts and different communities
• Substantially updated for the second edition, including a new introduction, 24 newly-commissioned chapters, ten updated chapters, and a comprehensive index
• Includes new chapters on research in non-English speaking countries – from Asia to South America – and cutting-edge topics such as language, gender, and popular culture; language and sexual identities; and language, gender, and socio-phonetics
• New sections focus on key themes and issues in the field, such as methodological approaches to language and gender, incorporating new chapters on conversation analysis, critical discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, and variation theory
• Provides unrivalled geographic coverage and an essential resource for a wide range of disciplines, from linguistics, psychology, sociology, and anthropology to communication and gender studies

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Susan Ehrlich is Professor of Linguistics at York University, Toronto, Canada. She is the author of Representing Rape: Language and Sexual Consent (2001), and co-editor of "Why Do You Ask?": The Function of Questions in Institutional Discourse (with Alice Freed, 2010) and Discursive Constructions of Consent in the Legal Process (with Diana Eades and Janet Ainsworth, 2016).

Miriam Meyerhoff is Professor of Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She is co-editor of Social Lives in Language: Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities (with Naomi Nagy, 2008), Doing Sociolinguistics (with Erik Schleef and Laurel Mackenzie, 2015), Bequia Talk (with James A. Walker, 2013), The Sociolinguistics Reader (with Erik Schleef, 2010) and is the author of Introducing Sociolinguistics, Second Edition (2011).

Janet Holmes is Emeritus Professor in Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand and Associate Director of the Wellington Language in the Workplace project. She is the author of Gendered Talk at Work (Blackwell, 2006), An Introduction to Sociolinguistics, fourth edition (Pearson, 2013) and co-editor (with Kirk Hazen) of Research Methods in Sociolinguistics (Wiley Blackwell, 2014).

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"The second edition should certainly enhance the handbook's reputation as an invaluable teaching and learning resource."

Journal of Sociolinguistics, July 2015

"This is what a handbook should be: authoritative, inclusive, and accessible... this updated version includes summaries of some of the most important debates and concepts of recent years without becoming bogged down in them. I will definitely use this handbook as my first reference of choice when students and colleagues ask me where to start in this particular field."

Scott Kiesling, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Written by leading specialists in the field, The Handbook of Language, Gender, and Sexuality is a collection of articles examining the dynamic ways in which women and men develop and manage gendered identities through their talk. The Handbook has been updated extensively with a new introduction and chapters focusing on key themes and issues across historical periods, and methodologies and cutting-edge research topics in the field today. In-depth overviews explore the study of language and gender worldwide, and the collection features data and case studies from interactions across a range of social contexts and communities. This comprehensive resource provides a state-of-the-art overview of language and gender for established scholars and an essential introduction to the field for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in a wide range of disciplines.

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The second edition should certainly enhance the handbook's reputation as an invaluable teaching and learning resource.

Journal of Sociolinguistics, July 2015

This is what a handbook should be: authoritative, inclusive, and accessible... this updated version includes summaries of some of the most important debates and concepts of recent years without becoming bogged down in them. I will definitely use this handbook as my first reference of choice when students and colleagues ask me where to start in this particular field.

Scott Kiesling, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Written by leading specialists in the field, The Handbook of Language, Gender, and Sexuality is a collection of articles examining the dynamic ways in which women and men develop and manage gendered identities through their talk. The Handbook has been updated extensively with a new introduction and chapters focusing on key themes and issues across historical periods, and methodologies and cutting-edge research topics in the field today. In-depth overviews explore the study of language and gender worldwide, and the collection features data and case studies from interactions across a range of social contexts and communities. This comprehensive resource provides a state-of-the-art overview of language and gender for established scholars and an essential introduction to the field for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in a wide range of disciplines.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1119384206
• ISBN 13: 9781119384205
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 688
• Herausgeber: Ehrlich Susan, Meyerhoff Miriam, Holmes Janet
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar