ISBN:
9780195126297
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0195126297
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9780195126303
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0195126300
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1423738764
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9781423738763
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xi, 431 p.)
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ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Studies in language and gender 1
Parallel Title:
Print version Reinventing identities
DDC:
306.44
Keywords:
Language and languages Sex differences
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Gender identity
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Language and languages Sex differences
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Gender identity
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Language and languages Sex differences
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Electronic books
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES ; Linguistics ; Sociolinguistics
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Gender identity
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Language and languages ; Sex differences
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Electronic book
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Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Talk is crucial to the way our identities are constructed, altered, and defended. These essays bring together feminist scholars in the area of language and gender to tackle such topics as African-American drag queens, gender and class on the shopping channel, and talk in the workplace
Description / Table of Contents:
Bad examples : transgression and progress in language and gender studies / Mary BucholtzNo woman, no cry : claiming African American women's place / Marcyliena Morgan -- Coherent identities amid heterosexist ideologies : deaf and hearing lesbian coming-out stories / Kathleen M. Wood -- Good guys and "bad" girls : identity construction by Latina and Latino student writers / Marjorie Faulstich Orellana -- Constructing the irrational woman : narrative interaction and agoraphobic identity / Lisa Capps -- Contextualizing the exotic few : gender dichotomies in Lakhota / Sara Trechter -- Changing femininities : the talk of teengage girls / Jennifer Coates -- Rebaking the pie : the WOMAN AS DESSERT metaphor / Caitlin Hines -- All media are created equal : do-it-yourself identity in alternative publishing / Laurel A. Sutton -- Strong language, strong actions : Native American women writing against federal authority / Rebecca J. Dobkins -- "Opening the door of paradise a cubit" : educated Tunisian women, embodied linguistic practice, and theories of language and gender / Keith Walters -- The display of (gendered) identities in talk at work / Deborah Tannen -- Gender, context, and the narrative construction of identity : rethinking models of "women's narrative" / Patricia E. Sawin -- Language, socialization, and silence in gay adolescence / William Leap -- Turn-initial 'no' : collaborative opposition among Latina adolescents / Norma Mendoza-Denton -- Conversationally implicating lesbian and gay identity / A.C. Liang -- Indexing polyphonous identity in the speech of African American drag queens / Rusty Barrett -- "She sired six children" : feminist experiments with linguistic gender / Anna Livia -- Purchasing power : the gender and class imaginary on the shopping channel / Mary Bucholtz -- From folklore to "News at 6" : maintaining language and reframing identity through the media / Colleen Cotter -- Constructing opposition within girls' games / Marjorie Harness Goodwin.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. - Description based on print version record
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