Handbook of Language, Gender, and Sexuality

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).

• List of Figures xiList of Tables xiiiNotes on Contributors xvAcknowledgments xxiIntroduction: Language, Gender, and Sexuality 1Susan Ehrlich and Miriam MeyerhoffPart I Theory and History 211 The Feminist Foundations of Language, Gender, and Sexuality Research 23Mary Bucholtz2 Theorizing Gender in Sociolinguistics and Linguistic Anthropology: Toward Effective Interventions in Gender Inequity 48Bonnie McElhinny3 Language and Desire 68Don KulickPart II Methods 854 Variation and Gender 87Miriam Meyerhoff5 Sociophonetics, Gender, and Sexuality 103Robert J. Podesva and Sakiko Kajino6 Ethnographic Methods for Language and Gender Research 123Niko Besnier and Susan U. Philips7 Conversation Analysis in Language and Gender Studies 141Sue Wilkinson and Celia Kitzinger8 Gender and Categorial Systematics 161Elizabeth Stokoe and Frederick Attenborough9 Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis: Relevance for Current Gender and Language Research 180Michelle M. LazarPart III Identities 20110 Language and Sexual Identities 203Robin Queen11 Exceptional Speakers: Contested and Problematized Gender Identities 220Kira Hall12 Language and Masculinity 240Bethan Benwell13 Queering Masculinities 260Tommaso M. MilaniPart IV Ideologies 27914 Gender and Language Ideologies 281Deborah Cameron15 The Power of Gender Ideologies In Discourse 297Susan U. Philips16 Meaning-Making and Ideologies of Gender and Sexuality 316Sally McConnell-Ginet17 A Marked Man: The Contexts of Gender and Ethnicity 335Sara TrechterPart V Global and Cross-Cultural Perspectives 35318 Language and Gender Research in Poland: An Overview 355Agnieszka Kie³kiewicz-Janowiak and Joanna Pawelczyk19 Historical Discourse Approach to Japanese Women’s Language: Ideology, Indexicality, and Metalanguage 378Momoko Nakamura20 Language and Gender in the Middle East and North Africa 396Enam Al-Wer21 Language and Gender Research in Brazil: An Overview 412Ana Cristina Ostermann and Luiz Paulo Moita-LopesPart VI Domains and Institutions 43122 Language and Gender in the Workplace 433Janet Holmes23 Language, Gender, and Sexual Violence: Legal Perspectives 452Susan Ehrlich24 Language and Gender in Educational Contexts 471Julia Menard-Warwick, Miki Mori, and Serena Williams25 Gender and Family Interaction 491Deborah Tannen26 Language and Gender in Peer Interactions among Children and Youth 509Marjorie Harness Goodwin and Amy Kyratzis27 Language and Gender in Adolescence 529Penelope EckertPart VII Engagement and Application 54728 Gender, Endangered Languages, and Revitalization 549Barbra A. Meek29 Gender and (A)nonymity in Computer-Mediated Communication 567Susan C. Herring and Sharon Stoerger30 “One Man in Two is a Woman”: Linguistic Approaches to Gender in Literary Texts 587Anna Livia31 Language, Gender, and Popular Culture 604Mary Talbot32 The Public View of Language and Gender: Still Wrong After All These Years 625Alice F. FreedIndex 647