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Words, Worlds, and Material Girls: Language, Gender, Globalization (Language, Power and Social Process)

By McElhinny , Bonnie S.

Book information

Publisher
Mouton de Gruyter
Year
2008
ISBN
3110195755, 9783110195750
Open Library ID
OL16140537M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1672253 bytes)
Series
Language, Power and Social Process 19
Edition
1
Pages
461\461
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40
Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Социолингвистика

Description

This wide-ranging volume explores how gender and language are used and transformed to discuss, enact, and project social differences in light of global economic and political changes in the late nineteenth, twentieth, and early twenty-first centuries. It presents analyses of language and gender from a broad spectrum of national contexts: Catalonia, Canada, China, India, Japan, Nigeria, Vietnam, Philippines, Tonga, and the United States. Cases studies consider language and gender in changing workplaces, schools and immigrant integration workshops, as well as in new and emerging sites for consumption and the production of identity. They also analyze the changing meanings of multilingualism, and the construction of ideologies about gender and language in colonial and postcolonial/national ideologies. The papers engage with and contribute to theoretical conceptualizations of globalization, cosmopolitanism, (post)colonialism, (trans)nationalism, and public spheres by drawing on a variety of sociolinguistic analytic strategies (variation analysis, media analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, ethnography of speaking, sociology of language, colonial discourse analysis).

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