Communicating Gender in Context
Editors
The contributions to the book “Communicating Gender in Context” deal not only with grammatical gender, but also with discursive procedures for constructing gender as a relevant social category in text and context. Attention is directed to European cultures which till now have come up short in linguistic and discourse analytic gender studies, e.g., Austria, Spain, Turkey, Germany, Poland and Sweden. But also English speech communities and questions of English grammatical gender are dealt with.
In accordance with recent sociolinguistic research the contributors refrain from generalizing theses about how men and women normally speak; no conversational style feature adheres so firmly to one sex as was thought in early feminism. The studies, however, show that even today the feminine gender is often staged in a way that leads to situative asymmetry to the advantage of men. The broader societal context of patriarchy does not determine all communicative encounters, but demands particular efforts from women and men to be subverted.
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 42] 1997. xxvi, 424 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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PrefaceHelga Kotthoff and Ruth Wodak | p. vii
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1. Symbols and Rules
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Making men out of people. The MAN principle in translating genderless formsFriederike Braun | p. 3
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“Male person” vs. “Everything that is not a male person”. Gender and sex in PolishBärbel Miemitz | p. 31
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Gender, grammar, and the space in betweenSuzanne Romaine | p. 51
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2. Conversational Features, Codes and Activities
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The interplay between interruptions and preference organization in conversation. New perspectives on a classic topic of gender researchUlrike Ahrens | p. 79
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Is Spain different? Observations on male-female communicative styles in a Spanish group discussionChristine Bierbach | p. 107
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The interactional achievement of expert status. Creating asymmetries by “Teaching Conversational Lectures”in TV discussionsHelga Kotthoff | p. 139
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Complaint stories. Constructing emotional reciprocity among womenSusanne Günthner | p. 179
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Women and men in the academic discourse communityBritt-Louise Gunnarsson | p. 219
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Communicating gender in two languagesJenny Cheshire and Penelope Gardner-Chloros | p. 249
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3. A Range of Feminities
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Competing discourse of feminityJennifer Coates | p. 285
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Race, gender and academic leadershipPhilomena Essed | p. 315
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“I know, we won’t revolutionize the world with it, but…”: Styles of female leadership in institutionsRuth Wodak | p. 335
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Do’s and dont’s. Gender representations in a political debateBrigitte Felderer | p. 371
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The relevance of fundamental frequency contour for interruptions: A case study of political discussion in AustriaSylvia Moosmüller | p. 401
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