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Communicating gender

Author: Suzanne Romaine
Publisher: Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 1999.
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Using a cross-disciplinary approach, this volume shows how language and discourse play key roles in understanding and communicating gender and culture. The starting point and central focus of the book is linguistics, but the author also draws on anthropology, biology, philosophy and psychology.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Suzanne Romaine
ISBN: 0805829253 9780805829259 0805829261 9780805829266
OCLC Number: 38910051
Description: xiv, 406 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Doing gender --
Boys will be boys? --
What's gender got to do with grammar? --
English : a man-made language? --
What's in a name? --
Gendered talk : gossip, shop talk, and the sound of silence --
Learning how to talk like a lady --
Different words, different worlds? --
Advertising gender --
Language reform : a msguided attempt to change herstory? --
Writing feminist futures.
Responsibility: Suzanne Romaine.
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