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Language and woman's place : text and commentaries / Robin Tolmach Lakoff ; edited by Mary Bucholtz.

Lakoff, Robin Tolmach. (Author). Bucholtz, Mary, 1966- (Added Author).

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ISBN: 0195167589 (cloth)
ISBN: 0195167570 (paper)
Physical Description: xiv, 309 p. ; 24 cm.
Edition: Rev. and expanded ed.
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Language and woman's place revisited / Robin Tolmach Lakoff -- Language and woman's place -- Pt. I. Language and woman's place -- Pt. II. Why women are ladies -- Annotations -- Pt. I. Contexts -- 1. Changing places : Language and woman's place in context / Mary Bucholtz -- 2. "Radical feminist" as label, libel, and laudatory chant : the politics of theoretical in feminist linguistics / Bonnie McElhinny -- 3. Positioning ideas and gendered subjects : "women's language" revisited / Sally McConnell-Ginet -- 4. Language and woman's place : picking up the gauntlet / Anna Livia -- Pt. II. Concepts -- 5. Power, Lady, and linguistic politeness in Language and woman's place / Janet Holmes -- 6. Cultural patterning in Language and woman's place / Deborah Tannen -- 7. The good woman / Penelope Eckert -- 8. Language and marginalized places / Kira Hall -- Pt. III. Femininities --

9. Exploring women's language in Japanese / Sachiko Ide -- 10. "Women's language" and Martha Stewart : from a room of one's own to a home of one's own to a corporation of one's own / Catherine Evans Davies -- 11. Public discourse and the private life of little girls : Language and woman's place and language socialization / Jenny Cook-Gumperz -- 12. Mother's place in Language and woman's place / Shari Kendall -- Pt. IV. Power -- 13. Doing and saying : some words on women's silence / Miriam Meyerhoff -- 14. Computer-mediated communication and woman's place / Susan C. Herring -- 15. Linguistic discrimination and violence against women : discursive practices and material effects / Susan Ehrlich -- 16. What does a focus on "men's language" tell us about Language and woman's place? / Scott Fabius Kiesling -- Pt. V. Woman's places --

17. Gender, identity, and "strong language" in a professional woman's talk / Judith Mattson Bean and Barbara Johnstone -- 18. The new (and improved?) language and place of women in Japan / Yoshiko Matsumoto -- 19. "I'm every woman" : Black women's (dis)placement in women's language study / Marcyliena Morgan -- 20. The anguish of normative gender : sociolinguistic studies among U. S. Latinas / Norma Mendoza-Denton -- 21. Contradictions of the indigenous Americas : feminist challenges to and from the field / Sara Trechter -- Pt. VI. Sexualities -- 22. Language and woman's place : blueprinting studies of gay men's English / William L. Leap -- 23. The way we wish we were : sexuality and class in Language and woman's place / Rudolf P. Gaudio -- 24. "I am woman, hear me roar" : the importance of linguistic stereotype for lesbian identity performances / Robin Queen --

25. As much as we use language : Lakoff's queer augury / Rusty Barrett.