Language and Gender / Edition 3

by Mary Talbot

Overview

Since its first publication in 1998, Mary Talbot’s Language and Gender has been a leading textbook, popular with students for its accessibility and with teachers for the range and depth it achieves in a single volume. This anticipated third edition has been thoroughly revised and updated for the era of #MeToo, genderqueer, Trump, and cyberhate.

The book is organized into three parts. An introductory section provides grounding in early ‘classic' studies in the field. In the second section, Talbot examines language used by women and men in a variety of speech situations and genres. The last section considers the construction and performance of gender in discourse, reflecting the interest in mass media and popular culture found in recent research, as well as the preoccupation with social change that is central to Critical Discourse Analysis. Maintaining an emphasis on recent research, Talbot covers a range of approaches at an introductory level, lucidly presenting sometimes difficult and complex issues. Each chapter concludes with a list of recommended readings, enabling students to further their interests in various topics.

Language and Gender will continue to be an essential textbook for undergraduates and postgraduates in linguistics, sociolinguistics, cultural and media studies, gender studies and communication studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781509530090
Publisher:	Polity Press
Publication date:	10/28/2019
Edition description:	3rd ed.
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	296,062
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.88(d)

About the Author

Mary Talbot is an internationally acclaimed scholar who has published widely on language, gender and power, particularly in relation to media and consumer culture.

Table of Contents

20 years on... Preface to the third edition

Acknowledgements

Transcription conventions

PART I: Preliminaries: Airing Stereotypes and Early Models

1 Language and gender

2 Talking proper

3 ‘Women’s language’ and ‘man made language’

PART II: Interaction among Women and Men

4 Telling stories

5 Conversation

6 Difference-and-dominance and beyond

PART III: Discourse and Gender: Construction and Performance

7 Critical perspectives on gender identity

8 Consumerism

9 New men and old boys

10 Professionally speaking

11 Language, gender and sexuality

12 Reclaiming the language

References

Index