A Beginner's Guide to Language and Gender

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-1-84769-055-5
Verlag: Channel View Publications - IPSUK

Buch, Englisch, 120 Seiten, Format (B × H): 189 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 227 g

Reihe: Multilingual Matters

A Beginner’s Guide to Language and Gender offers a broad and accessible introduction to the study of gender and language use for those new to the subject. The book introduces the theoretical and practical perspectives, including relevant frameworks necessary to understand ways in which language interacts with gender/sex in various settings, including: in media, in schools, in places of business, in places of worship, and at home.

The book is divided into two parts. Part I explores the historical background to the study of gender and language, moving through past theoretical approaches and debates to current views and trends. In Part II, gender and language use are examined in various contexts, specifically in the media, in classrooms, in the workplace, in the Western church, and at home. Each chapter offers study questions and further reading suggestions. There is also a helpful glossary of key terms at the back of the book. A Beginner’s Guide to Language and Gender is designed to be appealing, informative and, above all, accessible for readers from a range of backgrounds and disciplines.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jule, Allyson

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Preface

Part I: Understanding Gender and Language Use

Chapter 1. The Emergence of Gender and Language Studies

Chapter 2. Language as Gendered

Part II: Understanding Gender and Language Use in Various Contexts

Chapter 3. Gender in the Media

Chapter 4. Gender and Language Use in Education

Chapter 5. Gender and Language Use in the Workplace

Chapter 6. Gender and Language Use in the Western Church

Chapter 7. Gender and Language Use in Relationships

Chapter 8. Looking to the Future

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jule, Allyson
Allyson Jule is an academic specialising in the interaction between language and gender. She is Co-Director of the Gender Studies Institute, Trinity Western University, Canada and an associate of the University of Oxford's International Gender Studies Centre. She has published widely, and her work has featured in TIME magazine and The Ladies Home Journal.

Allyson Jule, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK. Her research concentrates on gender and language use in various classrooms settings, including gender at an intersection with ethnicity and religious identity. She is also the author of Gender, Participation and Silence in the Language Classroom: Sh-shushing the Girls (2004), the editor of Gender and the Language of Religion (2005), Language and Religious Identity: Women in Discourse (2007), and a co-editor of Being Feminist, Being Christian: Essays from Academia (2006).