Gender, sexuality, and meaning : linguistic practice and politics /
"This volume collects Sally McConnell-Ginet's most important published articles in the last twenty years, which circle around the following themes: language users are actively engaged in making meanings, both as speakers and listeners; linguistics systems and socio-political institutions c...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2011]
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| Series: | Studies in language and gender.
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| Summary: | "This volume collects Sally McConnell-Ginet's most important published articles in the last twenty years, which circle around the following themes: language users are actively engaged in making meanings, both as speakers and listeners; linguistics systems and socio-political institutions constrain, but do not determine, communicative possiblities; language is essential to understanding gender and sexuality and their connection to ethnicity, class, race, and other parts of social identity"-- |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 297 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780195187809 (hardback) 0195187806 (hardback) |