Reinventing Identities: The Gendered Self in Discourse - Brossura

Bucholtz, Mary; Liang, A. C.; Sutton, Laurel A.

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ISBN 10: 0195126300 ISBN 13: 9780195126303

Casa editrice: Oxford University Press USA, 1999

Riassunto

Talk is crucial to the way our identities are constructed, altered, and defended. Feminist scholars in particular have only begun to investigate how deeply language reflects and shapes who we think we are. This volume of previously unpublished essays, the first in the new Language and Gender Studies series, advances that effort by bringing together leading feminist scholars in the area of language and gender, including Deborah Tannen, Jennifer Coates, and Marcyliena Morgan, as well as rising younger scholars. Topics explored include African-American drag queens, gender and class on the shopping channel, and talk in the workplace.

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Overall, this is an impressive collection, which makes a useful contribution to the reworking of language and gender studies. It is particularly successful in bringing recent feminist theory to bear on earlier feminist and pre-feminist linguistics, and in continuing to bring together research on 'bad subjects'-marginal voices and emergent transgressive identities. (Language in Society)

Given the maturity of language and gender as afield of study, a series devoted to it is long overdue and most welcome. The maturity of the field is reflected in the scope of the first volume on identity formation and in its engagement with theory. . .A valuable and engaging feature of the book is that, at the same time as it contributes to the consolidation of new theoretical positions, it does not lose touch with earlier 'moments' in the field of language and gender. . .This is an impressive collection, which makes a useful contribution to the reworking of language and gender studies. It is particularly successful in bringing recent feminist theory to bear on earlier feminist and pre-feminist linguistics, and in continuing to bring together research on 'bad subjects'? (marginal voices and emergent transgressive identities, Language in Society)

Contenuti

• Mary Bucholtz: Introduction: Bad Examples: Transgression and Progress in Language and Gender Studies
• Part 1: Identity as Invention
• 1: Marcyliena Morgan: No Woman No Cry: Claiming African American Women's Place
• 2: Kathleen M. Wood: Coherent Identities amid Heterosexist Ideologies: Deaf and Hearing Lesbian Coming-Out Stories
• 3: Marjorie Faulstich Orellana: Good Guys and "Bad" Girls: Identity Construction by Latina and Latino Student Writers
• 4: Lisa Capps: Constructing the Irrational Woman: Narrative Interaction and Agoraphobic Identity
• 5: Sara Trechter: Cnotextualizing the Exotic Few: Gender Dichotomies in Lakhota
• Part 2: Identity as Ideology
• 6: Jennifer Coates: Changing Femininities: The Talk of Teenage Girls
• 7: Caitlin Hines: Rebaking the Pie: The WOMAN AS DESSERT Metaphor
• 8: Laurel A. Sutton: All Media are Created Equal: Do-It-Yourself Identity in Alternative Publishing
• 9: Rebecca J. Dobkins: Strong Language, Strong Actions: Native American Women Writing against Federal Authority
• 10: Keith Walters: "Opening the Door of Paradise a Cubit": Educated Tunisian Women, Embodied Linguistic Practices, and Theories of Language and Gender
• Part 3: Identity as Ingenuity
• 11: Deborah Tannen: The Display of (Gendered) Identities in Talk at Work
• 12: Patricia E. Sawin: Gender, Context, and the Narrative Construction of Identity: Rethinking Models of "Women's Narrative"
• 13: William Leap: Language, Socialization, and Silence in Gay Adolescence
• 14: Norma Mendoza-Denton: Turn-Initial No: Collaborative Opposition among Latina Adolescents
• 15: A.C. Liang: Conversationally Implicating Lesbian and Gay Identity
• 16: Rusty Barrett: Indexing Polyphonous Identity in the Speech of African American Drag Queens
• 17: Anna Livia: "She Sired Six Children": Feminist Experiments with Linguistic Gender
• 18: Mary Bucholtz: Purchasing Power: The Gender and Class Imaginary on the Shopping Channel
• 19: Colleen Cotter: Folklore and "News at 6": Gendered Discourse Domains and Language Planning
• 20: Marjorie Harness Goodwin: Constructing Opposition within Girls' Games
• Index

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Oxford University Press USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0195126300
• ISBN 13: 9780195126303
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 448
• Contatto del produttore: Messaggerie Libri; ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it; ; Via Verdi, 8.; Assago Milano; 20090; Italia