Language and gender : interdisciplinary perspectives / edited by Sara Mills.

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Other Authors: Mills, Sara, 1954-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Longman, 1995.
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Table of Contents:
  • Language, gender and career / Jennifer Coates
  • Rethinking language and gender studies : some issues for the 1990s / Deborah Cameron
  • Constructing a lesbian poetic for survival / Liz Yorke
  • Sappho and the other woman / Margaret Williamson
  • 'Her wench of bliss' : gender and the language of Djuna Barnes' Ladies almanack / Deborah Tyler-Bennett
  • Cyborgs and cyberpunk : rewriting the feminine in popular fiction / Jenny Wolmark
  • Claiming the speakwrite : linguistic subversion in the feminist dystopia / Elisabeth Mahoney
  • Feminising classroom talk? / Joan Swann and David Graddol
  • Primary school teachers' explanations of boys' disruptiveness in the classroom : a gender-specific aspect of the hidden curriculum / Cleopatra Altani
  • 'We're boys, miss!' : finding gendered identities and looking for gendering of identities in the foreign language classroom / Jane Sunderland
  • Dominance and communicative incompetence : the speech habits of a group of 8-11-year-old boys in a Lebanese rural community / Farida Abu-Haidar
  • Voice and gender in children / Alison Lee, Nigel Hewlett and Moray Nairn
  • Feminism, language and the rhetoric of television wildlife programmes / Barbara Crowther and Dick Leith
  • Man in the news : the misrepresentation of women speaking in news-as-narrative-discourse / Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard
  • Commonplaces : the woman in the street: text and gender in the work of Jenny Holzer and Barbara Kruger / Helen Hills.