Women And Language

Author : Joyce Penfield
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1987-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0887064868

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Women and Language in Transition by Joyce Penfield Pdf

This collection of essays deals with the interplay of language and social change, asking the question: How can language and society be made gender equal? The contributors examine the critical role of language in the lives of white women and women of color in the United States. Since language pervades many dimensions of women’s lives, this study takes a multi-disciplinary approach to the issues considered. The volume is divided into three sections. The first, “Liberating Language,” focuses on the active role women had in altering the extent of linguistic sexism in English during the 1970s. A second section, “Identity Creation,” deals with the alteration of that portion of language which serves to name women and their experiences. The final section, “Women of Color,” offers a rare and timely look at the particular problems confronted by minority women. It argues that women of color have different problems and different links to language than white middle-class women.

Author : Jennifer Coates
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317292531

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Women, Men and Language by Jennifer Coates Pdf

Women, Men and Language has long been established as a seminal text in the field of language and gender, providing an account of the many ways in which language and gender intersect. In this pioneering book, bestselling author Jennifer Coates explores linguistic gender differences, introducing the reader to a wide range of sociolinguistic research in the field. Written in a clear and accessible manner, this book introduces the idea of gender as a social construct, and covers key topics such as conversational practice, same sex talk, conversational dominance, and children’s acquisition of gender-differentiated language, discussing the social and linguistic consequences of these patterns of talk. Here reissued as a Routledge Linguistics Classic, this book contains a brand new preface which situates this text in the modern day study of language and gender, covering the postmodern shift in the understanding of gender and language, and assessing the book’s impact on the field. Women, Men and Language continues to be essential reading for any student or researcher working in the area of language and gender.

Author : Sylvia Shaw
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107080881

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Women, Language and Politics by Sylvia Shaw Pdf

Investigates the underrepresentation of women in politics, by examining how language use constructs and maintains gender inequalities in political institutions.

Author : Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : 0367133717

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Innovations and Challenges by Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard Pdf

Language, Discourse and Gender Violence. Women, language, and public discourse: five decades of sexism and scrutiny / Alice F. Freed -- Gender respect gap / Deborah Cameron -- The transgressive, the traditional: sexist discourses of grandmothering and ageing / Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard and Rosamund Moon -- Disco divas and heroic knights: a critical multimodal analysis of gender roles in "Create the World" LEGO cards / Jai Mackenzie, Laura Coffey-Glover, Sophie Payne, Mark McGlashan -- Sexual harassment as reported by the Brazilian press: ambivalent and contradictory framings / Branca Telles Ribeiro and Liliana Cabral Bastos -- Sexism and Institutional Discourses. 'Until I got a man in he wouldn't listen': evidence for the gender order in New Zealand workplaces / Janet Holme -- Sexism and mediatized recontextualizations: the case of a battered woman who killed / Sibley Slinkard and Susan Ehrlich -- The Discourse of (re)exploitation: female victims in the legal system / Nicci Macleod -- Language-based discrimination in schools: intersections of gender and sexuality / Helen Sauntson.

Author : Robin Tolmach Lakoff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2004-07-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 019534717X

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Language and Woman's Place by Robin Tolmach Lakoff Pdf

The 1975 publication of Robin Tolmach Lakoff's Language and Woman's Place, is widely recognized as having inaugurated feminist research on the relationship between language and gender, touching off a remarkable response among language scholars, feminists, and general readers. For the past thirty years, scholars of language and gender have been debating and developing Lakoff's initial observations. Arguing that language is fundamental to gender inequality, Lakoff pointed to two areas in which inequalities can be found: Language used about women, such as the asymmetries between seemingly parallel terms like master and mistress, and language used by women, which places women in a double bind between being appropriately feminine and being fully human. Lakoff's central argument that "women's language" expresses powerlessness triggered a controversy that continues to this day. The revised and expanded edition presents the full text of the original first edition, along with an introduction and annotations by Lakoff in which she reflects on the text a quarter century later and expands on some of the most widely discussed issues it raises. The volume also brings together commentaries from twenty-six leading scholars of language, gender, and sexuality, within linguistics, anthropology, modern languages, education, information sciences, and other disciplines. The commentaries discuss the book's contribution to feminist research on language and explore its ongoing relevance for scholarship in the field. This new edition of Language and Woman's Place not only makes available once again the pioneering text of feminist linguistics; just as important, it places the text in the context of contemporary feminist and gender theory for a new generation of readers.

Author : Anne Pauwels
Publisher : Addison Wesley Publishing Company
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015046008531

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Women Changing Language by Anne Pauwels Pdf

It considers what forms of sexism are found in language and whether these differ among languages. It also looks at how sexist language can be changed and evaluates the effectiveness of these reforms.

Author : Eva Haettner Aurelius,Hedda Gunneng,Jon Helgason
Publisher : Nordic Academic Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789187121890

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Women's Language by Eva Haettner Aurelius,Hedda Gunneng,Jon Helgason Pdf

By linguistic close-reading of more than a thousand letters from the 12th through the 18th centuries - written in Latin, Swedish, French, German, and English - this compilation analyzes the differences in language and communication between women and men. Armed with an exhaustive stylistic analysis, this volume attempts to answer the question Is there a special niche reserved for women's language? As it pinpoints the variations in how women expressed themselves when addressing men or other women, 'this detailed investigation of style and expression comes to the conclusion that there is no evidence for a particular female language; however, this authoritative work is a joy to follow for anyone interested in language, linguistics, stylistic analysis, and gender.

Author : Kimie Takahashi
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781847698568

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Language Learning, Gender and Desire by Kimie Takahashi Pdf

For many Japanese women, the English language has never been just another school subject. For them, English is the tool of identity transformation and the means of obtaining what they passionately desire – mobility, the West and its masculinity. Language Learning, Gender and Desire explores Japanese women's passion for learning English and how they negotiate identity and desire in the terrain of racial, sexual and linguistic politics. Drawing on ethnographic data and popular media texts, the book offers new insights into the multidirectionality of desire and power in the context of second language learning.

Author : Sally Mcconnell Ginet,Ruth Borker,Nelly Furman
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1980-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780275905200

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Women and Language in Literature and Society by Sally Mcconnell Ginet,Ruth Borker,Nelly Furman Pdf

All the 21 essays are outstanding contributions exemplifying the most interesting and sophisticated methodologies in feminist literary criticism. The essays are written by specialists representing a wide range of disciplines (linguistics, psychology, sociology, literary criticism, history and anthropology). An editors' introduction preceding each of the four parts provides a useful summary.

Author : Camille Roman,Suzanne Juhasz,Cristanne Miller
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0813520126

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The Women and Language Debate by Camille Roman,Suzanne Juhasz,Cristanne Miller Pdf

Author : Fatima Sadiqi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004128538

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Women, Gender, and Language in Morocco by Fatima Sadiqi Pdf

This text is an original investigation in the complex relationship between women, gender, and language in a Muslim, multilingual, and multicultural setting. Moroccan women's use of monolingualism (oral literature) and multilingualism (code-switching) reflects their agency and gender-role subversion in a heavily patriarchal society.

Author : Abby Kaplan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107084926

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Women Talk More than Men by Abby Kaplan Pdf

A detailed look at language-related myths that explores both what we know and how we know it.

Author : Naoko Takemaru
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786456109

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Women in the Language and Society of Japan by Naoko Takemaru Pdf

Feminist critics have long considered language a primary vehicle for the transmission of sexist values in a society. This much-needed sociolinguistic critique examines the representation of women in traditional Japanese language and society. Derogatory and highly-sexualized terms are placed in historical context, and the progress of nonsexist language reform is reviewed. Central to this work are the individual voices of Japanese women who took part in a survey, expressing their candid thoughts and concerns regarding biased gender representations. In their own words, they give voice to the reality of being female within the constraints of a traditional--and sometimes misogynistic--language.

Author : Sally McConnell-Ginet,Ruth Borker,Nelly Furman
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003210569

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Women and Language in Literature and Society by Sally McConnell-Ginet,Ruth Borker,Nelly Furman Pdf

All the 21 essays are outstanding contributions exemplifying the most interesting and sophisticated methodologies in feminist literary criticism. The essays are written by specialists representing a wide range of disciplines (linguistics, psychology, sociology, literary criticism, history and anthropology). An editors' introduction preceding each of the four parts provides a useful summary.

Author : Casey Miller,Kate Swift
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : English language
ISBN : 9780595159222

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Words and Women by Casey Miller,Kate Swift Pdf

WORDS AND WOMEN is the landmark work that reveals the sexual biases present in our everyday speech and writing-and shows how they affect women’s and men’s perceptions of the world and one another.