The Handbook of Language, Gender, and Sexuality

"The second edition should certainly enhance the handbook′s reputation as an invaluable teaching and learning resource."

Journal of Sociolinguistics, July 2015

"This is what a handbook should be: authoritative, inclusive, and accessible... this updated version includes summaries of some of the most important debates and concepts of recent years without becoming bogged down in them. I will definitely use this handbook as my first reference of choice when students and colleagues ask me where to start in this particular field."

Scott Kiesling, University of Pittsburgh, USA

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 updated extensively 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.

List of Figures xi

List of Tables xiii

Notes on Contributors xv

Acknowledgments xxi

Introduction: Language, Gender, and Sexuality 1
Susan Ehrlich and Miriam Meyerhoff

Part I Theory and History 21

1 The Feminist Foundations of Language, Gender, and Sexuality Research 23
Mary Bucholtz

2 Theorizing Gender in Sociolinguistics and Linguistic Anthropology: Toward Effective Interventions in Gender Inequity 48
Bonnie McElhinny

3 Language and Desire 68
Don Kulick

Part II Methods 85

4 Variation and Gender 87
Miriam Meyerhoff

5 Sociophonetics, Gender, and Sexuality 103
Robert J. Podesva and Sakiko Kajino

6 Ethnographic Methods for Language and Gender Research 123
Niko Besnier and Susan U. Philips

7 Conversation Analysis in Language and Gender Studies 141
Sue Wilkinson and Celia Kitzinger

8 Gender and Categorial Systematics 161
Elizabeth Stokoe and Frederick Attenborough

9 Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis: Relevance for Current Gender and Language Research 180
Michelle M. Lazar

Part III Identities 201

10 Language and Sexual Identities 203
Robin Queen

11 Exceptional Speakers: Contested and Problematized Gender Identities 220
Kira Hall

12 Language and Masculinity 240
Bethan Benwell

13 Queering Masculinities 260
Tommaso M. Milani

Part IV Ideologies 279

14 Gender and Language Ideologies 281
Deborah Cameron

15 The Power of Gender Ideologies In Discourse 297
Susan U. Philips

16 Meaning–Making and Ideologies of Gender and Sexuality 316
Sally McConnell–Ginet

17 A Marked Man: The Contexts of Gender and Ethnicity 335
Sara Trechter

Part V Global and Cross–Cultural Perspectives 353

18 Language and Gender Research in Poland: An Overview 355
Agnieszka Kie³kiewicz–Janowiak and Joanna Pawelczyk

19 Historical Discourse Approach to Japanese Women s Language: Ideology, Indexicality, and Metalanguage 378
Momoko Nakamura

20 Language and Gender in the Middle East and North Africa 396
Enam Al–Wer

21 Language and Gender Research in Brazil: An Overview 412
Ana Cristina Ostermann and Luiz Paulo Moita–Lopes

Part VI Domains and Institutions 431

22 Language and Gender in the Workplace 433
Janet Holmes

23 Language, Gender, and Sexual Violence: Legal Perspectives 452
Susan Ehrlich

24 Language and Gender in Educational Contexts 471
Julia Menard–Warwick, Miki Mori, and Serena Williams

25 Gender and Family Interaction 491
Deborah Tannen

26 Language and Gender in Peer Interactions among Children and Youth 509
Marjorie Harness Goodwin and Amy Kyratzis

27 Language and Gender in Adolescence 529
Penelope Eckert

Part VII Engagement and Application 547

28 Gender, Endangered Languages, and Revitalization 549
Barbra A. Meek

29 Gender and (A)nonymity in Computer–Mediated Communication 567
Susan C. Herring and Sharon Stoerger

30 One Man in Two is a Woman : Linguistic Approaches to Gender in Literary Texts 587
Anna Livia

31 Language, Gender, and Popular Culture 604
Mary Talbot

32 The Public View of Language and Gender: Still Wrong After All These Years 625
Alice F. Freed

Index 647

Susan Ehrlich is Professor of Linguistics at York University, Toronto, Canada. She is the author of Representing Rape: Language and Sexual Consent (2001), and co–editor of "Why Do You Ask?": The Function of Questions in Institutional Discourse (with Alice Freed, 2010) and Discursive Constructions of Consent in the Legal Process (with Diana Eades and Janet Ainsworth, 2016).

Miriam Meyerhoff is Professor of Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She is co–editor of Social Lives in Language: Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities (with Naomi Nagy, 2008), Doing Sociolinguistics (with Erik Schleef and Laurel Mackenzie, 2015), Bequia Talk (with James A. Walker, 2013), The Sociolinguistics Reader (with Erik Schleef, 2010) and is the author of Introducing Sociolinguistics, Second Edition (2011).

Janet Holmes is Emeritus Professor in Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand and Associate Director of the Wellington Language in the Workplace project. She is the author of Gendered Talk at Work (Blackwell, 2006), An Introduction to Sociolinguistics, fourth edition (Pearson, 2013) and co–editor (with Kirk Hazen) of Research Methods in Sociolinguistics (Wiley Blackwell, 2014).