Gender, sexuality, and meaning : an overview -- Language and gender -- Feminism in linguistics -- Difference and language : a linguist's perspective -- Communities of practice : where language, gender, and power all live -- Intonation in a man's world -- Constructing meaning, constructing selves : snapshots of language, gender, and class from Belten High -- The sexual (re)production of meaning : a discourse-based theory -- Prototypes, pronouns, and persons -- "What's in a name?" : social labeling and gender practices -- Queering semantics : definitional struggles -- Breaking through the 'glass ceiling' : can linguistic awareness help?
0
"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"--Provided by publisher