Language and Gender

Jennifer Coates is Professor Emeritus of English Language and Linguistics at Roehampton University London. She is the author of Women Talk (Wiley-Blackwell, 1996), Men Talk: Stories in the Making of Masculinities (Wiley-Blackwell, 2003), Women, Men and Language (3rd edition, 2004), and The Sociolinguistics of Narrative (edited with Joanna Thornborrow, 2005). She was made a Fellow of the English Association in 2002. Pia Pichler is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is co-editor of Gender and Spoken Interaction (with Eva Eppler, 2009), and author of Talking Young Femininities (2009).

“Overall, this new edition is successful. Readers familiar with the original version will hopefully find the changes warranted and in line with the goals outlined by the authors in their introduction. It remains a highly useful text for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses in language and gender and foranyone interested in the historical and current theoretical and methodological approaches to research on gender and language.”  (Linguist, 27 August 2012)

• Editors’ Note Transcription Conventions 1Transcription Conventions 2Sources Introduction 1Part I Gender Differences in Pronunciation and Grammar 71 Yanyuwa: “Men speak one way, women speak another” 13John Bradley2 Sex and Covert Prestige 20Peter Trudgill3 Linguistic Variation and Social Function 27Jenny Cheshire4 Girl-talk/Boy-talk: Sex Differences in Adolescent Speech 38Edina Eisikovits5 Black Women in the Rural South: Conservative and Innovative 49Patricia C. Nichols6 Gender and Sociolinguistic Variation 57Penelope EckertPart II Gender and Conversational Practice 677 Complimenting – A Positive Politeness Strategy 71Janet Holmes8 Cooperation and Competition Across Girls’ Play Activities 89Marjorie Harness Goodwin9 Expressions of Gender: An Analysis of Pupils’ Gendered Discourse Styles in Small Group Classroom Discussions 112Julia Davies10 Gender and the Use of Exclamation Points in Computer- Mediated Communication: An Analysis of Exclamations Posted to Two Electronic Discussion Lists 126Carol WaseleskiPart III Gender, Power, and Dominance in Mixed Talk 13911 Women’s Place in Everyday Talk: Reflections on Parent–Child Interaction 143Candace West and Don H. Zimmerman12 The Sounds of Silence: How Men Silence Women in Marital Relations 153Victoria Leto DeFrancisco13 Talk Control: An Illustration from the Classroom of Problems in Analysing Male Dominance of Conversation 161Joan Swann14 Participation in Electronic Discourse in a “Feminist” Field 171Susan C. Herring, Deborah A. Johnson and Tamra DiBenedetto15 Zuiqian “Deficient Mouth”: Discourse, Gender and Domestic Violence in Urban China 183Jie YangPart IV Same-Sex Talk 19316 Gossip Revisited: Language in All-Female Groups 199Jennifer Coates17 “Why Be Normal?”: Language and Identity Practices in a Community of Nerd Girls 224Mary Bucholtz18 Hybrid or In Between Cultures: Traditions of Marriage in a Group of British Bangladeshi Girls 236Pia Pichler19 Performing Gender Identity: Young Men’s Talk and the Construction of Heterosexual Masculinity 250Deborah Cameron20 Pushing at the Boundaries: The Expression of Alternative Masculinities 263Jennifer Coates21 Playing the Straight Man: Displaying and Maintaining Male Heterosexuality in Discourse 275Scott F. KieslingPart V Women’s Talk in the Public Domain 28722 Female Speakers of Japanese in Transition 291Katsue Akiba Reynolds23 Governed by the Rules? The Female Voice in Parliamentary Debates 300Sylvia Shaw24 “Doing Femininity” at Work: More than Just Relational Practice 315Janet Holmes and Stephanie Schnurr25 Communities of Practice at Work: Gender, Facework and the Power of Habitus at an All-Female Police Station and a Feminist Crisis Intervention Center in Brazil 332Ana Cristina Ostermann26 Trial Discourse and Judicial Decision-Making: Constraining the Boundaries of Gendered Identities 356Susan EhrlichPart VI Language, Gender, and Sexuality 37127 Lesbian Bar Talk in Shinjuku, Tokyo 375Hideko Abe28 Boys’ Talk: Hindi, Moustaches and Masculinity in New Delhi 384Kira Hall29 Queering Gay Men’s English 401William L. Leap30 Indexing Polyphonous Identity in the Speech of African American Drag Queens 413Rusty Barrett31 Language and Sexuality in Spanish and English Dating Chats 430Marisol del-Teso-CraviottoPart VII Theoretical Debates (1): Gender or Power? 44732 “Women’s Language” or “Powerless Language”? 451William M. O’Barr and Bowman K. Atkins33 Are “Powerless” Communication Strategies the Japanese Norm? 461Patricia J. Wetzel34 When the Doctor is a “Lady”: Power, Status and Gender in Physician–Patient Encounters 468Candace WestPart VIII Theoretical Debates (2): Difference or Dominance? 48335 A Cultural Approach to Male–Female Miscommunication 487Daniel N. Maltz and Ruth A. Borker36 Asymmetries: Women and Men Talking at Cross-Purposes 503Deborah Tannen37 Selling the Apolitical 518Senta Troemel-PloetzPart IX Theoretical Debates (3): When is Gender Relevant? 52938 Whose Text? Whose Context? 533Emanuel A. Schegloff39 Gender Relevance in Talk-in-Interaction and Discourse 548Ann Weatherall40 Yes, But Is It Gender? 551Joan SwannPart X New Directions in Language and Gender Research 56941 Communities of Practice: Where Language, Gender, and Power All Live 573Penelope Eckert and Sally McConnell–Ginet42 Gender and Language Ideologies 583Deborah Cameron43 Social Constructionism, Postmodernism and Feminist Sociolinguistics 600Janet HolmesIndex 611