Author: Julia S. Falk
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134786204
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 570
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Rather than the standard American story of an increasingly triumphant march of scientific inquiry towards structural phonology, Women, Language and Linguistics reveals linguistics where its purpose was communication; the appeal of languages lay in their diversity; and the authority of language lay in its speakers and writers. Julia S Falk explores the vital part which women have played in preserving a linguistics based on the reality and experience of language; this book finally brings to light a neglected perspective for those working in linguistics and the history of linguistics.
Author: Wendy Ayres-Bennett
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191071129
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 673
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Women in the History of Linguistics is a ground-breaking investigation into women's contribution to the description, analysis, and codification of languages across a wide range of different linguistic and cultural traditions. Notably, the volume looks beyond Europe to Africa, Australia, Asia, and North America, offering a systematic and comparative approach to a subject that has not yet received the scholarly attention it deserves. In view of women's often limited educational opportunities in the past, their impact is examined not only within traditional and institutional contexts, but also in more domestic and less public realms. The chapters explore a variety of spheres of activity, including the production of grammars, dictionaries, philological studies, critical editions, and notes and reflections on the nature of language and writing systems, as well as women's contribution to the documentation and maintenance of indigenous languages, language teaching and acquisition methods, language debates, and language use and policy. Attitudes towards women's language-both positive and negative-that regularly shape linguistic description and analysis are explored, alongside metalinguistic texts specifically addressed to them as readers. Women in the History of Linguistics is intended for all scholars and students interested in the history of linguistics, women's studies, social and cultural history, and the intersection between language and gender
Author: Jennifer Coates
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317292545
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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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.
Author: Abby Kaplan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110708492X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 311
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A detailed look at language-related myths that explores both what we know and how we know it.
Author: Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780367133719
Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Language, Discourse and Gender Violence. Women, language, and public discourse: five decades of sexism and scrutiny / Alice F. Freed -- Gender respect gap / Deborah Cameron -- The transgressive, the traditional: sexist discourses of grandmothering and ageing / Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard and Rosamund Moon -- Disco divas and heroic knights: a critical multimodal analysis of gender roles in "Create the World" LEGO cards / Jai Mackenzie, Laura Coffey-Glover, Sophie Payne, Mark McGlashan -- Sexual harassment as reported by the Brazilian press: ambivalent and contradictory framings / Branca Telles Ribeiro and Liliana Cabral Bastos -- Sexism and Institutional Discourses. 'Until I got a man in he wouldn't listen': evidence for the gender order in New Zealand workplaces / Janet Holme -- Sexism and mediatized recontextualizations: the case of a battered woman who killed / Sibley Slinkard and Susan Ehrlich -- The Discourse of (re)exploitation: female victims in the legal system / Nicci Macleod -- Language-based discrimination in schools: intersections of gender and sexuality / Helen Sauntson.
Author: Naoko Takemaru
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786456108
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
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Feminist critics have long considered language a primary vehicle for the transmission of sexist values in a society. This much-needed sociolinguistic critique examines the representation of women in traditional Japanese language and society. Derogatory and highly-sexualized terms are placed in historical context, and the progress of nonsexist language reform is reviewed. Central to this work are the individual voices of Japanese women who took part in a survey, expressing their candid thoughts and concerns regarding biased gender representations. In their own words, they give voice to the reality of being female within the constraints of a traditional--and sometimes misogynistic--language.
Author: Julia S. Falk
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134786212
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
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This book explores the vital part which women have played in preserving a linguistics based on the reality and experience of language; bringing to light a much neglected perspective for those working in linguistics.
Author: Robin Tolmach Lakoff
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019534717X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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The 1975 publication of Robin Tolmach Lakoff's Language and Woman's Place, is widely recognized as having inaugurated feminist research on the relationship between language and gender, touching off a remarkable response among language scholars, feminists, and general readers. For the past thirty years, scholars of language and gender have been debating and developing Lakoff's initial observations. Arguing that language is fundamental to gender inequality, Lakoff pointed to two areas in which inequalities can be found: Language used about women, such as the asymmetries between seemingly parallel terms like master and mistress, and language used by women, which places women in a double bind between being appropriately feminine and being fully human. Lakoff's central argument that "women's language" expresses powerlessness triggered a controversy that continues to this day. The revised and expanded edition presents the full text of the original first edition, along with an introduction and annotations by Lakoff in which she reflects on the text a quarter century later and expands on some of the most widely discussed issues it raises. The volume also brings together commentaries from twenty-six leading scholars of language, gender, and sexuality, within linguistics, anthropology, modern languages, education, information sciences, and other disciplines. The commentaries discuss the book's contribution to feminist research on language and explore its ongoing relevance for scholarship in the field. This new edition of Language and Woman's Place not only makes available once again the pioneering text of feminist linguistics; just as important, it places the text in the context of contemporary feminist and gender theory for a new generation of readers.
Author: Sylvia Shaw
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107080886
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 341
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Investigates the underrepresentation of women in politics, by examining how language use constructs and maintains gender inequalities in political institutions.
Author: Marlis Hellinger
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027297665
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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This is the second of a three-volume comprehensive reference work on “Gender across Languages”, which provides systematic descriptions of various categories of gender (grammatical, lexical, referential, social) in 30 languages of diverse genetic, typological and socio-cultural backgrounds. Among the issues discussed for each language are the following: What are the structural properties of the language that have an impact on the relations between language and gender? What are the consequences for areas such as agreement, pronominalisation and word-formation? How is specification of and abstraction from (referential) gender achieved in a language? Is empirical evidence available for the assumption that masculine/male expressions are interpreted as generics? Can tendencies of variation and change be observed, and have alternatives been proposed for a more equal linguistic treatment of women and men? This volume (and the previous two volumes) will provide the much-needed basis for explicitly comparative analyses of gender across languages. All chapters are original contributions and follow a common general outline developed by the editors. The book contains rich bibliographical and indexical material.Languages of Volume 2: Chinese, Dutch, Finnish, Hindi, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, Vietnamese, Welsh.
