Authors:McElhinny, Bonnie S.,
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Keywords: language, power, social, process, globalization, gender, material, girls, words, worlds
Number of Pages: 454
Published: 2008-04-15
List price: $49.00
ISBN-10: 3110195755
ISBN-13: 9783110195750

This wide-ranging volume explores how gender and language are used and transformed to discuss, enact, and project social differences in light of global economic and political changes in the late nineteenth, twentieth, and early twenty-first centuries. It presents analyses of language and gender from a broad spectrum of national contexts: Catalonia, Canada, China, India, Japan, Nigeria, Vietnam, Philippines, Tonga, and the United States. Cases studies consider language and gender in changing workplaces, schools and immigrant integration workshops, as well as in new and emerging sites for consum