The Handbook of Language, Gender, and Sexuality

Written by leading specialists in the field The Handbook of Language, Gender and Sexuality  is a collection of articles examining the dynamic ways in which women and men develop and manage gendered identities through their talk. The handbook has been extensively updated with a new introduction and chapters focusing on key themes and issues across historical periods, and methodologies and cutting–edge research topics in the field today. In–depth overviews explore the study of language and gender worldwide, and the collection features data and case studies from interactions across a range of social contexts and communities. This comprehensive resource provides a state–of–the–art overview of language and gender for established scholars and an essential introduction to the field for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in a wide range of disciplines.

Susan Ehrlich is Professor of Linguistics at York University, Toronto, Canada. She is the author of Representing Rape: Language and Sexual Consent (2001), editor of Language and Gender: Modern Themes in English Studies (2007), and co–editor of “Why Do You Ask?”: The Function of Questions in Institutional Discourse (with Alice Freed, 2010). Miriam Meyerhoff is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is co–editor of Social Lives in Language: Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities (with Naomi Nagy, 2008), The Sociolinguistics Reader (with Erik Schleef, 2010) and is the author of Introducing Sociolinguistics, Second Edition (2011). Janet Holmes holds a personal Chair in Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She is Director of the Wellington Language in the Workplace project and a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. She is the author of Gendered Talk at Work (Blackwell, 2006), and An Introduction to Sociolinguistics, Third Edition (2008).