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Communicating Gender (Hardcover)
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Communicating Gender (Hardcover)
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Taking a cross-disciplinary approach, Suzanne Romaine's main
concern is to show how language and discourse play key roles in
understanding and communicating gender and culture. In addition to
linguistics--which provides the starting point and central focus of
the book--she draws on the fields of anthropology, biology,
communication, education, economics, history, literary criticism,
philosophy, psychology, and sociology. The text covers the "core"
areas in the study of language and gender, including how and where
gender is indexed in language, how men and women speak, how
children acquire gender differentiated language, and sexism in
language and language reform. Although most of the examples are
drawn primarily from English, other European languages and
non-European languages, such as Japanese are considered. The text
is written in an accessible way so that no prior knowledge of
linguistics is necessary to understand the chapters containing
linguistic analysis. Each chapter is followed by exercises and
discussion questions to facilitate the book's use as a classroom
text.
The author reviews scholarly treatments of gender, and then uses
her own data material from the corpora of spoken and written
English usage. Special features include an examination of
contemporary media sources such as newspapers, advertising, and
television; a discussion of women's speculative fiction; a study of
gender and advertising, with special attention paid to the role
played by language in these domains; and a review of French
feminist thought, particularly as it relates to the issue of
language reform.
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