Women, Men and Language

A Sociolinguistic Account of Gender Differences in Language
3. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-138-94878-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 404 g

Reihe: Routledge Linguistics Classics

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Coates, Jennifer

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

PART ONE: INTRODUCTORY
1 Language and gender
2 The historical background (I) – Folklinguistics and the early grammarians
3 The historical background (II) – Anthropologists and dialectologists

PART TWO: THE SOCIOLINGUISTIC EVIDENCE
4 Quantitative studies
5 Social networks
6 Gender differences in conversational practice
7 Conversational dominance in mixed talk
8 Same-sex talk

PART THREE: CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES
9 Children and gender-differentiated language
10 The role of gender differences in linguistic change
11 The social consequences of gender differences in language

PART FOUR: LOOKING TO THE FUTURE
12 New developments in language and gender research

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jennifer Coates is Emeritus Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Roehampton, UK.