Overview

Contributions to this work deal not only with grammatical gender but also with discursive procedures for constructing gender as a relevant social category in text and context. Attention is directed to European cultures which have not received extensive linguistic and discourse analysis, such as Austria, Spain, Turkey, Germany, Poland and Sweden. Questions of English grammatical gender are also dealt with. The studies argue that feminine gender is often staged in a way that leads to situative asymmetry to the advantage of men. They also suggest that the broader societal context of patriarchy does not determine all communicative encounters, but demands particular efforts from women and men to be subverted.

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Author:   Helga Kotthoff (University of Konstanz) ,  Ruth Wodak (University of Vienna)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   42
Weight:   0.960kg
ISBN:  

9789027250551

ISBN 10:   9027250553
Pages:   424
Publication Date:   12 June 1997
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Preface (by Kotthoff, Helga); 2. 1. Symbols and Rules; 3. Making men out of people. The MAN principle in translating genderless forms (by Braun, Friederike); 4. Male person vs. Everything that is not a male person . Gender and sex in Polish (by Miemitz, Barbel); 5. Gender, grammar, and the space in between (by Romaine, Suzanne); 6. 2. Conversational Features, Codes and Activities; 7. The interplay between interruptions and preference organization in conversation. New perspectives on a classic topic of gender research (by Ahrens, Ulrike); 8. Is Spain different? Observations on male-female communicative styles in a Spanish group discussion (by Bierbach, Christine); 9. The interactional achievement of expert status. Creating asymmetries by Teaching Conversational Lectures in TV discussions (by Kotthoff, Helga); 10. Complaint stories. Constructing emotional reciprocity among women (by Gunthner, Susanne); 11. Women and men in the academic discourse community (by Gunnarsson, Britt-Louise); 12. Communicating gender in two languages (by Cheshire, Jenny); 13. 3. A Range of Feminities; 14. Competing discourse of feminity (by Coates, Jennifer); 15. Race, gender and academic leadership (by Essed, Philomena); 16. I know, we won't revolutionize the world with it, but... : Styles of female leadership in institutions (by Wodak, Ruth); 17. Do's and dont's. Gender representations in a political debate (by Felderer, Brigitte); 18. The relevance of fundamental frequency contour for interruptions: A case study of political discussion in Austria (by Moosmuller, Sylvia)

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