Gender, sexuality, and meaning: linguistic practice and politics
Sally McConnell-Ginet
Gender, sexuality, and meaning: linguistic practice and politics
المؤلف
Sally McConnell-Ginetالناشر
Oxford University Pressطبع 1
قائمة
شناسنامه
العنوان واسم المؤلف
Gender, sexuality, and meaning: linguistic practice and politics / Sally McConnell-Ginetبيانات النشر
نیویورک : Oxford University Press، 2011مالمواصفات الشكلية
xii, 297 p.; 25 cm.الموضوع
Language and languages Sex differencesSemantics
Semantics (Philosophy)
مسلسل
(Studies in language and gender؛ )اللغة
انگلیسیملاحظات
Includes bibliographical references and index.المحتويات
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?