This volume examines important themes in the theoretical debates on the relationship of language and gender. It analyses this relationship across a range of different disciplinary perspectives from linguistics, literary theory, cultural studies and visual analysis. The focus of the book goes beyond an analysis of women's language to discuss the complexities of gendered language with chapters on lesbian poetics, the language of girls and boys and the relationship between gender and genre.
List of contributors ix Acknowledgements xiii Introduction 1(10) Sara Mills SECTION 1 POSITION PAPERS: DIFFERENCE OR DOMINANCE 11(34) Language, gender and career 13(18) Jennifer Coates Rethinking language and gender studies: some issues for the 1990s 31(14) Deborah Cameron SECTION 2 LESBIAN POETICS 45(60) Constructing a lesbian poetic for survival 47(29) Liz Yorke Sappho and the other woman 76(19) Margaret Williamson `Her wench of bliss: gender and the language of Djuna Barnes Ladies Almanack 95(10) Deborah Tyler-Bennett SECTION 3 GENDER/GENRE 105(28) Cyborgs and cyberpunk: rewriting the feminine in popular fiction 107(14) Jenny Wolmark Claiming the speakwrite: linguistic subversion in the feminist dystopia 121(12) Elisabeth Mahoney SECTION 4 GENDER, LANGUAGE AND EDUCATION 133(46) Feminising classroom talk? 135(14) Joan Swann David Graddol Primary school teachers explanations of boys disruptiveness in the classroom: a gender-specific aspect of the hidden curriculum 149(11) Cleopatra Altani `Were boys, miss!: finding gendered identities and looking for gendering of identities in the foreign language classroom 160(19) Jane Sunderland SECTION 5 GENDER, LANGUAGE AND CHILDREN 179(26) Dominance and communicative incompetence: the speech habits of a group of 8-11-year-old boys in a Lebanese rural community 181(13) Farida Abu-Haidar Voice and gender in children 194(11) Alison Lee Nigel Hewlett Moray Nairn SECTION 6 LANGUAGE, MEDIA/VISUAL ANALYSIS AND GENDER 205(52) Feminism, language and the rhetoric of television wildlife programmes 207(19) Barbara Crowther Dick Leith Man in the news: the misrepresentation of women speaking in news-as-narrative-discourse 226(14) Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard Commonplaces: the woman in the street: text and gender in the work of Jenny Holzer and Barbara Kruger 240(17) Helen Hills Conclusions 257(3) Sarah Mills Bibliography 260(16) Index 276
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