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Women, Men and Language Jennifer Coates

Women, Men and Language By Jennifer Coates

Women, Men and Language by Jennifer Coates


Summary

Coates provides an overview both of traditional lore about the linguistic behaviour of women and men and also of recent research findings in sociolinguistics and related subjects.

Women, Men and Language Summary

Women, Men and Language: A Sociolinguistic Account of Gender Differences in Language by Jennifer Coates

Women, Men and Language is an essential introduction to the key area of language and gender. It sketches the historical background, summarises recent research and introduces students to the key issues in the field using an unpretentious and clear style.
Gender is a hugely popular topic and this book provides the answer to questions such as `Do men and women talk differently?'; `In what ways do they talk differently'; `Does Language play a role in male dominance?'.

Women, Men and Language Reviews

'Women, Men and Language has served readers since its first publication as an accessible and balanced guide to the literature on gender differences in language. This revised edition extends the book's scope to reflect recent developments in theory and research, while retaining the clarity of earlier versions. Informative, wide-ranging and always readable, the updated text provides 21st century students and their teachers with an invaluable overview of an increasingly complex field.'
Deborah Cameron, Rupert Murdoch Professor of Language and Communication, University of Oxford

About Jennifer Coates

Jennifer Coates is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Roehampton University of Surrey.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Third Edition
Acknowledgements
PART ONE: INTRODUCTORY
1 Language and gender
2 The historical background (I) - Folklinguistics and the early grammarians
3 The historical background (II) - Anthropologists and dialectologists
PART TWO: THE SOCIOLINGUISTIC EVIDENCE
4 Quantitative studies
5Social networks
6 Gender differences in conversational practice
7 Conversational dominance in mixed talk
8 Same-sex talk
PART THREE: CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES
9 Children and gender-differentiated language
10 The role of gender differences in linguistic change
11The social consequences of gender differences in language
PART FOUR: LOOKING TO THE FUTURE
12 New developments in language and gender research
Bibliography
Index

Additional information

GOR003261921
9780582771864
0582771862
Women, Men and Language: A Sociolinguistic Account of Gender Differences in Language by Jennifer Coates
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
20040812
264
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