ABeginner's Guide to Language and Gender

✍ Scribed by Allyson Jule

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 118
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In this revised and updated 2nd edition of her pioneering textbook, Allyson Jule offers fresh insight into the study of language and gender for those new to the subject. Students will gain a thorough grounding in theoretical and practical perspectives on gender and language in the workplace, media, education, world religions and domestic settings.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Prologue to the Second Edition
Part 1: Understanding Gender and Language Use
1. The Emergence and Direction of the Field
2. Language as Gendered
Part 2: Understanding Gender and Language Use in Various Contexts – Brief Introductions
3. Gender and Language Use in the Media and Technology
4. Gender and Language Use in Education
5. Gender and Language Use in the Workplace
6. Gender and Language Use in Religion: Judaism, Christianity and Islam
7. Gender and Language Use in Negotiated Relationships
8. An Anti-Conclusion
Glossary
References
Index