Holmes Handbook Language Gender - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 063122503X ISBN 13: 9780631225034

Casa editrice: John Wiley &Sons, 2004

Riassunto

The Handbook of Language and Gender is a collection of articles written by leading specialists in the field that examines the dynamic ways in which women and men develop and manage gendered identities through their talk.

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• Provides a comprehensive, up-to-date, and stimulating picture of the field for students and researchers in a wide range of disciplines

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  Features data and case studies from interactions in different social contexts and from a range of different communities

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Informazioni sull?autore

Janet Holmes holds a personal Chair in Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington and is Director of the Wellington Language in the Workplace Project and the Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English. She is the author of numerous books and articles, including Introduction to Sociolinguistics (second edition, 2001) and Women, Men and Politeness (1995). She is editor of Gendered Speech in Social Context (2000).

Miriam Meyerhoff is Reader in Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh, before which she was Assistant Professor at the University of Hawai'i, Manoa. She has published articles on language and gender, language change in creoles, and is the author of Constraints on Null Subjects in Bislama (Vanuatu) (2000).

Dalla quarta di copertina

The Handbook of Language and Gender is a collection of articles written by a team of leading specialists in the field that examines the implications of gender ideologies for the ways we interact. The volume includes data and case-studies from interactions in a number of different social contexts and from a range of different communities, and theoretical discussions about the problems, pitfalls, and potential benefits of research on and discourses about gender.

This handbook provides a comprehensive, up-to-date, and stimulating picture of the field of language and gender for students and researchers in a wide range of disciplines, including linguistics, gender studies, communication, management, psychology, sociology, and anthropology.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: John Wiley &Sons
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 063122503X
• ISBN 13: 9780631225034
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 778
• Redattore: Holmes Janet
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile