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Author Lakoff, Robin Tolmach.

Title Language and woman's place : text and commentaries / Robin Tolmach Lakoff ; edited by Mary Bucholtz.

Imprint New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  305.42 L149l 2004    ---  Available
Edition Rev. and expanded ed.
Description xiv, 309 p. ; 24 cm.
Series Studies in language and gender
Note Originally published: New York: Harper & Row, 1975.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Contexts -- Changing places: Language and woman's place in context / Mary Bucholtz -- "Radical feminist" as label, libel, and laudatory chant: the politics of theoretical taxonomies in feminist linguistics / Bonnie McElhinny -- Positioning ideas and gendered subjects: "Women's language" revisited / Sally McConnell-Ginet -- Language and Woman's Place: picking up the gauntlet / Anna Livia -- Power, lady, and linguistic politeness in Language and Woman's Place / Janet Holmes -- Cultural patterning in Language and Woman's Place / Deborah Tannen -- Good woman / Penelope Eckert -- Language and marginalized places / Kira Hall -- Femininities -- Exploring women's language in Japanese / Sachiko Ide -- "Women's language" and Martha Stewart: from a room of one's own to a home of one's own to a corporation of one's own / Catherine Evans Davies -- Public discourse and the private life of little girls: Language and Woman's Place and language socialization / Jenny Cook-Gumperz -- Mother's place in Language and woman's place / Shari Kendall -- Power -- Doing and saying: some words on women's silence / Miriam Meyerhoff.
Computer-mediated communication and woman's place / Susan C. Herring -- Linguistic discrimination and violence against women: discursive practices and material effects / Susan Ehrlich -- What does a focus on "men's language" tell us about Language and Woman's Place? / Scott Fabius Kiesling -- Women's places -- Gender, identity, and "strong language" in a professional woman's talk / Judith Mattson Bean and Barbara Johnstone -- New (and improved?) Language and place of women in Japan / Yoshiko Matsumoto -- "I'm every woman": Black women's (dis)placement in women's language study / Marcyliena Morgan -- Anguish of normative gender: sociolinguistic studies among U.S. Latinas / Norma Mendoza-Denton -- Contradictions of the indigenous Americas: feminist challenges to and from the field / Sara Trechter -- Sexualities -- Language and Woman's Place: blueprinting studies of gay men's English / William L. Leap -- Way we wish we were: sexuality and class in Language and Woman's Place / Rudolf P. Gaudio -- "I am woman, hear me roar": the importance of Linguistic stereotype for lesbian identity performances / Robin Queen -- As much as we use language: Lakoff's queer augury / Rusty Barrett.
Subject Women -- Language.
Sex role.
Sexism in language.
English language -- Sex differences.
Added Author Bucholtz, Mary, 1966-
ISBN 0195167570 (paper)
0195167589 (cloth)
9780195167580 (cloth)
9780195167573 (paper)
Standard No. NLGGC 255446284
YDXCP 2040719
NZ1 7839894

 
    
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