Gender, sexuality, and meaning: linguistic practice and politics
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New York
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Oxford University Press
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Studies in language and gender
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Sally McConnell-Ginet
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1. Gender, sexuality, and meaning: An overview -- Part I. Politics and scholarship: 2. Language and gender -- 3. Feminism in linguistics -- 4. Difference and language: A linguist's perspective -- Part II. Social practice, social meanings, and selves: 5. Communities of practice: Where language, gender, and power all live -- 6. Intonation in a man's world -- 7. Constructing meaning, constructing selves: Snapshots of language, gender, and class from Belten High -- Part III. Constructing content in discourse: 8. The sexual )re(production of meaning: A discourse-based theory -- 9. Prototypes, pronouns, and persons -- 01. What's in a name?: Social labeling and gender practices -- 11. Queering semantics: Definitional struggles -- Coda: 21. Breaking through the 'glass ceiling': Can linguistic awareness help?