Language and Woman''s Place - Text and Commentaries

Zusatztext an exceptional piece of scholarship, and one must truly congratulate the editor for providing us with a brilliantly contextualised second edition of IWPR^ ... The book establishes with authority IWPR^'s status as the single most influential text in the history of language and gender. Informationen zum Autor Robin Tolmach Lakoff is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. Widely regarded as the founder of language and gender studies, she writes extensively about gender and power and is the author or coauthor of seven books and nearly one hundred articles. Mary Bucholz is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has coedited several books on language and gender and is the author of numerous articles on race, class, and youth identities. Klappentext The 1975 publication of Language and Woman's Place, with its argument that language is fundamental to gender inequality, inaugurated language and gender research. This volume presents the original text along with commentaries by Lakoff and 26 other leading scholars of language, gender, and sexuality. The new edition places the text in contemporary context for a new generation of readers.Presents an argument that language is fundamental to gender inequality, inaugurated language and gender research. This book presents commentaries by Lakoff and 26 other leading scholars of language, gender, and sexuality.

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• Authors: Robin T. Lakoff, Robin Tolmach Lakoff, Robin Tolmach (Professor of Linguistics Lakoff, Lakoff Robin Tolmach
• Assisted by: Mary Bucholtz (Editor), Bucholtz Mary (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2004
• EAN: 9780195167573
• ISBN: 978-0-19-516757-3
• No. of pages: 328
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 230 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Studies in Language and Gender; Print on Demand; Studies in Language and Gender; Studies in Language Gender and Sexuality
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Linguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General