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Gender, sexuality, and meaning : linguistic practice and politics / Sally McConnell-Ginet

McConnell-Ginet, Sally, 1938-

Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, c2011

XII, 297 S. ; 25 cm

Englisch

1. Gender, sexuality, and meaning: An overviewPart 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?

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?

Includes bibliographical references and index. - Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke

0-19-518781-4 (pbk.); 978-0-19-518781-6 (paperback); 978-0-19-518780-9 ( : hardback); 0-19-518780-6 (hardback); 978-0-19-518780-9 ( : hardback)

2010013979

9780195187816

OCoLC: 150363777     

OCoLC: 740943977 (aus SWB)     

ES 150      Ähnliche Literatur

P120.S48

306.44

*Sprache ; Geschlechterrolle ; Semantik      Zum Register

*Soziolinguistik      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Language and languages -- Sex differences ; Semantics ; Semantics (Philosophy)

"This volume collects Sally McConnell-Ginet's most important published articles in the last twenty years, which circle around the following themes: language users are actively engaged in making meanings, both as speakers and listeners; linguistics systems and socio-political institutions constrain, but do not determine, communicative possiblities; language is essential to understanding gender and sexuality and their connection to ethnicity, class, race, and other parts of social identity"--