Gender in interaction : perspectives on femininity and masculinity in ethnography and discourse /
In this volume, gender is seen as a communicative achievement and as a social category interacting with other social parametres such as age, status, prestige, institutional and ethnic frameworks, cultural and situative contexts. The authors come from a variety of backgrounds such as sociology of com...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub.,
©2001.
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| Series: | Pragmatics & beyond ;
new ser. 93. |
| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=86755 |
| Summary: | In this volume, gender is seen as a communicative achievement and as a social category interacting with other social parametres such as age, status, prestige, institutional and ethnic frameworks, cultural and situative contexts. The authors come from a variety of backgrounds such as sociology of communication, anthropological linguistics, sociolinguistics, social psychology, and text linguistics. Masculinity and femininity are conceived of as varying culturally, historically and contextually. All contributions discuss empirical research of communication and the question of whether (and how) ge. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxiv, 352 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 0585462569 9780585462561 902729741X 9789027297419 1282254553 9781282254558 9789027251121 9027251126 1588111105 |
| ISSN: | 0922-842X ; |