Language, gender, and sexuality: an introduction

by Kiesling, Scott F.

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Title Statements

Full title :Language, gender, and sexuality : an introduction / Scott F. Kiesling.

Summary

Language, Gender, and Sexuality offers a panoramic and accessible introduction to the ways in which linguistic patterns are sensitive to social categories of gender and sexuality, as well as an overview of how speakers use language to create and display gender and sexuality. This book includes discussions of trans/non-binary/genderqueer identities, embodiment, new media, and the role of language and interaction in sexual harassment, assault, and rape. Drawing on an international range of examples to illustrate key points, this book addresses the questions of: how language categorizes the gender/sexuality world in both grammar and interaction; how speakers display, create, and orient to gender, sexuality, and desire in interaction; how and why people display different ways of speaking based on their gender/sexual identities. Aimed at students with no background in linguistics or gender studies, this book is essential reading for anyone studying language, gender, and sexuality for the first time.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2019.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:Abingdon, Oxon
Language:eng
Publication Date:2019.

The Physical Object

Description:xii, 187 pages : : illustrations ; : 20 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781138487710, 1138487716, 9781138487727, 1138487724
oclc:on1057377030
LC Classification:P96.S48
Dewey Decimal:408.6/6

1. More than talking difference -- 2. Studying language -- 3. What is gender, sexuality, sexual identity? (a short introduction to a very big topic) -- 4. How we got here: a brief history of the study of language, gender, and sexuality -- 5. Linguistic categorization and gender categories -- 6. Interaction, identity, and performativity -- 7. Linguistic norms as gender norms -- 8. Putting it all together: gender, sexuality and language infuse life and society -- Index.

Subjects

Communication -- Différences entre sexes Communication -- Sex differences Genre (Linguistique) Grammar, Comparative and general -- Gen… Langage et langues -- Différences entre… Langage et sexualité Language and languages -- Sex differenc… Language and sex Sexism in language Sexisme dans le langage