| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 454 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Language, power, and social process ; 19 |
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Language, power, and social process ; 19.
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| Contents |
Language, gender and economies in global transitions : provocative and provoking questions about how gender is articulated / Bonnie McElhinny -- Symbolically central and materially marginal : women's talk in a Tongan work group / Susan U. Philips -- "Re-employment stars" : language, gender and neoliberal restructuring in China / Jie Yang -- When Aboriginal equals "at risk" : the impact of institutional discourse on Aboriginal Head Start families / Susanne Miskimmin -- Stage goddesses and studio divas in South India : on agency and the politics of voice / Amanda Weidman -- Echoes of modernity : nationalism and the enigma of "women's language" in late nineteenth century Japan / Miyako Inoue -- Recontextualizing the American occupation of the Philippines : erasure and ventriloquism in colonial discourse around men, medicine and infant mortality / Bonnie McElhinny -- Out on video : gender, language and new public spheres in Islamic northern Nigeria / Rudolf P. Gaudio -- Gender and bilingualism in the new economy / Monica Heller -- African women in Catalan language courses : struggles over class, gender and ethnicity in advanced liberalism / Joan Pujolar -- Gender, multilingualism and the American war in Vietnam / Binh Nguyen -- Shop talk : branding, consumption and gender in American middle-class youth interaction / Mary Bucholtz -- Cosmopolitanism and linguistic capital in China : language, gender and the transition to a globalized market economy in Beijing / Qing Zhang -- Gender and interaction in a globalizing world : negotiating the gendered self in Tonga / Niko Besnier |
| Summary |
This wide-ranging volume focuses on changes in language and gender in ten different national sites as a result of globalization. The papers draw on a variety of sociolinguistic methodologies to consider workplaces, schools, media discourse, beauty pageants, musical stars, and marriages in which 'modern' and 'traditional', 'local' and 'global' identities are constructed and contested |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Language and sex.
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Globalization.
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Multilingualism.
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globalism.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Sociolinguistics.
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Globalization
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Language and sex
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Multilingualism
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Globalisierung
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Sprache
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Geschlechterrolle
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Sekseverschillen.
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Sociolinguïstiek.
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Internationalisatie.
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Aborigines.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
McElhinny, Bonnie S., 1966-
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| LC no. |
2007041738 |
| ISBN |
9783110198805 |
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3110198800 |
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1281993514 |
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9781281993519 |
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9786611993511 |
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6611993517 |
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