Communicating Gender
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| Rating | : | 4.92 (890 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0805829261 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 420 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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"welcome to the world of gender!" according to Severin KARL. If you're a citizen of the united states, the term "gender" is certainly not new to you, nor the discussions about it. For me, an austrian student of linguistics and media sciences, Suzanne Romaines book offers an very interesting, easy to read AND easy to understand survey over different topics dealing with the idea of "doing gender". Sounds like an introduction into gender, but that's not true: Her a
In addition to linguistics--which provides the starting point and central focus of the book--she draws on the fields of anthropology, biology, communication, education, economics, history, literary criticism, philosophy, psychology, and sociology. The author reviews scholarly treatments of gender, and then uses her own data material from the corpora of spoken and written English usage. Taking a cross-disciplinary approach, Suzanne Romaine's main concern is to show how language and discourse play key roles in understanding and communicating gender and culture. Special features include an examination of contemporary media sources such as newspapers, advertising, and television; a discussion of women's speculative fiction; a study of gender and advertising, with special attention paid to the role played by language in these domains; and a review of French feminist thought, particularly as it relates to the issue of language reform.. The text covers the "core" areas in the study of language and gender, including how and where gender is indexed in language, how men and women speak, how children acquire gender differentiated language, and sexism in language and language reform. Although most of the examples are drawn primarily from English, othe
Throughout the 11 chapters the author provides a comprehensive account of how gender is communicated and how it is marked in language, showing how gendered language practices are learned and how they reveal underlying assumptions and beliefs. I highly recommend Communicating Gender for the advanced undergraduate, for graduates, and for any scholar interested in a sophisticated analysis and overview of gender communication.—Contemporary Psychologythe hallmarks of this book areits cross-disciplinary, cross-linguistic, and cross-cultura