Gender Language and Discourse

Language in Society, 2005

There has been a great deal of research on language and gender and there are many books which have the title Language and Gender. Despite this proliferation of resources, I have always had difficulty recommending a textbook to students of language and gender, because many of the overview texts seem to belong to a particular research paradigm which assumes firstly, that gender/sex is a stable categorization which has a consistent influence on language production and, secondly, that the speech of men and women differs in ways that are consistent and predictable. Holmes and Meyerhoff's Handbook of Language and Gender is therefore an unusual and challenging collection of essays. It is unusual in that all of the essays have been newly commissioned (unlike some other collections of essays on this subject which reprint 'classicessays'); all of them are written by acknowledged experts in the field and constitute surveys of the most recent research (unlike other language and gender research surveys which sum up past trends in the research); and all of them challenge conventional academic and popular views of the relation between language and gender. 1 The primary importance of this book lies perhaps in this last aspect, for these essays all move language and gender research away from a concern with documenting the differences between so-called 'male' and 'female' language. Instead, they all take as their starting point an anti-essentialist view of gender, one which assumes that gender is something which individuals perform or which they orient to within interaction. But significantly, all of the essays, instead of assuming as some have, that gender therefore is now irrelevant, demonstrate that gender does make a difference, but not in the same way in every interaction, and perhaps not always in ways which we would expect. Furthermore, rather than simply dismissing research which aims to prove that women and men speak differently, many of these essays focus on why it is that the notion of sex difference is so important within our culture.

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

Allyson Jule's overview of language and gender research introduces readers to a range of valuable material using accessible prose and an engaging tone. As a 'beginner's guide' to the ways in which we are 'rehearsed into genderedness' (3-4), a useful concept, it covers the 21-42. Oxford: Blackwell.

Issues in Applied Linguistics, 2004

Journal of Pragmatics, 1998

Freed, eds., Rethinking language and gender research: Theory and practice. London and New York: Longman, 1966. 303 pp. £15.99 (pb.). ISBN 0582 26573 8.

Journal of Pragmatics, 1998

Freed, eds., Rethinking language and gender research: Theory and practice. London and New York: Longman, 1966. 303 pp. £15.99 (pb.). ISBN 0582 26573 8.

Estudios de Sociolingüística, 2003

Language in Society, 1999

This paper examines gender in a language which represents one of the major social problems of language lessons. In a society, gender discrimination is reflected in the language that expresses productivity in accordance with the same sex while discriminating against others. Naturally, prejudice exists popularly with both men and women. Therefore, language is considered a powerful tool for ancestors. Language is one of the important methods of birth and birth through sexual discrimination. The index of gender beliefs, depending on whether women should show warmth to men should reflect the characteristics of the skills, reflected in the letters of the language of everyday communication. As a result, language subtly reflects the tendency of the art form and the power to go men. The rules of grammar are structured in such a way that female words are usually found in the corresponding male form. In addition, masculine nouns and pronouns are often used as well as a standard label for transmission of men and women. Therefore, such kinds of languages are harmful to the consequences of degrading women. In order to reduce sexual orientation, it is necessary to change people's language habits by making them aware of the beneficial effects of sex speech. This research paper will seek to explore and investigate the concept of gender language, identification, and assessment of cultural aspect, social aspects, and psychological factor influencing the reality of sexism in the English language by sexual experimentation that occurs in syntax, morphology, and language semantics and decoding strategies to avoid sexism. Various books and essays have been selected to investigate the nature of gender in the English language.