ISBN:
9789027297419
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (381 p.)
Parallel Title:
Print version Gender in Interaction : Perspectives on femininity and masculinity in ethnography and discourse
DDC:
305.3
Keywords:
Communication ; Sex differences
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Sex role
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Social interaction
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Abstract:
In this volume, gender is seen as a communicative achievement and as a social category interacting with other social parametres such as age, status, prestige, institutional and ethnic frameworks, cultural and situative contexts. The authors come from a variety of backgrounds such as sociology of communication, anthropological linguistics, sociolinguistics, social psychology, and text linguistics. Masculinity and femininity are conceived of as varying culturally, historically and contextually. All contributions discuss empirical research of communication and the question of whether (and how) ge
Description / Table of Contents:
Gender in Interaction; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication; Table of contents; Preface; Part I: Introduction; Gender and interaction; Part II: Perspectives on gender in childhood and adolescence; Girls' oppositional stances; Constituting the emotions; Notably gendered relations; Far from sugar and spice; Part III: Perspectives on masculinity; Masculinities and men's health; Gender and habitus; "Male honor"; Part IV: Perspectives on femininity; Arguing among scholars; Academic women in the male university field; Gender, emotion, and poeticity in Georgian mourning rituals
Description / Table of Contents:
Theorizing genderSubject index; Pragmatics and Beyond New Series;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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