Making Meanings, Making Lives - Gender, Sexuality, And Linguistic Practice

Informationen zum Autor Sally McConnell-Ginet is Professor Emerita of Linguistics at Cornell University. Klappentext A dozen of Sally McConnell-Ginet's essays on language, gender, and sexuality. Zusammenfassung This volume offers a representative selection of Sally McConnell-Ginet's publications on language, gender and sexuality, which circle around the following themes: language users are actively engaged in making meanings, both as speakers and listeners; languages and socio-political institutions constrain, but do not determine, communicative possibilities; attention to language deepens understanding of gender and sexuality, including connections to ethnicity, class,race, and other dimensions of social identity and inequality.

Summary

A dozen of Sally McConnell-Ginet's essays on language, gender, and sexuality.

Product details

• Authors: McConnell-Ginet, Sally McConnell-Ginet, Sally (Cornell University) McConnell-Ginet, Sally (Professor Emerita of Linguistics McConnell-Ginet
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 31.12.2008, delayed
• EAN: 9780195187809
• ISBN: 978-0-19-518780-9
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Studies in Language and Gender; Studies in Language and Gender; Studies in Language Gender and Sexuality
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics