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The Handbook of Language, Gender, and Sexuality

Series: Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
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The Handbook of Language, Gender, and Sexuality is a comprehensive and significantly updated second edition that brings together leading specialists to explore how gender identities are formed and expressed through language. It features data and case studies from diverse social contexts and communities, covering new methodologies and the latest research, including non-English speaking countries and topics like popular culture and socio-phonetics.
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This book is essential for students and researchers in linguistics, psychology, sociology, anthropology, communication, and gender studies seeking a deep understanding of language's role in gender and sexuality.

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Significantly expanded and updated, the second edition of The Handbook of Language, Gender, and Sexuality brings together a team of the leading specialists in the field to create a comprehensive overview of key historical themes and issues, along with methodologies and cutting-edge research topics.

Examine the dynamic ways that women and men develop and manage gendered identities through their talk, presenting data and case studies from interactions in a range of social contexts and different communities.

Substantially updated for the second edition, including a new introduction, 24 newly-commissioned chapters, ten updated chapters, and a comprehensive index.

Includes new chapters on research in non-English speaking countries – from Asia to South America – and cutting-edge topics such as language, gender, and popular culture; language and sexual identities; and language, gender, and socio-phonetics.

New sections focus on key themes and issues in the field, such as methodological approaches to language and gender, incorporating new chapters on conversation analysis, critical discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, and variation theory.

The book provides unrivalled geographic coverage and serves as an essential resource for a wide range of disciplines, from linguistics, psychology, sociology, and anthropology to communication and gender studies.

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Journal of Sociolinguistics praises this edition as "an invaluable teaching and learning resource," highlighting its enhanced reputation through updated content and new chapters.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781119384205

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 October 2017

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell

Edition: 2nd edition

Contributors:

  • Edited by Miriam Meyerhoff
  • Edited by Susan Ehrlich
  • Edited by Janet Holmes

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 31.0mm

Width: 170.0mm

Height: 241.0mm

Weight: 1043g

Pages: 688

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About the Author

Susan Ehrlich is Professor of Linguistics at York University, Toronto, Canada. She is the author of Representing Rape: Language and Sexual Consent (2001), and co-editor of "Why Do You Ask?": The Function of Questions in Institutional Discourse (with Alice Freed, 2010) and Discursive Constructions of Consent in the Legal Process (with Diana Eades and Janet Ainsworth, 2016).

Miriam Meyerhoff is Professor of Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She is co-editor of Social Lives in Language: Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities (with Naomi Nagy, 2008), Doing Sociolinguistics (with Erik Schleef and Laurel Mackenzie, 2015), Bequia Talk (with James A. Walker, 2013), The Sociolinguistics Reader (with Erik Schleef, 2010) and is the author of Introducing Sociolinguistics, Second Edition (2011).

Janet Holmes is Emeritus Professor in Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand and Associate Director of the Wellington Language in the Workplace project. She is the author of Gendered Talk at Work (Blackwell, 2006), An Introduction to Sociolinguistics, fourth edition (Pearson, 2013) and co-editor (with Kirk Hazen) of Research Methods in Sociolinguistics (Wiley Blackwell, 2014).

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