Full Description
Shortlisted for BAAL (British Association for Applied Linguistics) Book Prize 2022
The Routledge Handbook of Language, Gender, and Sexuality provides an accessible and authoritative overview of this dynamic and growing area of research. Covering cutting-edge debates in eight parts, it is designed as a series of mini edited collections, enabling the reader, and particularly the novice reader, to discover new ways of approaching language, gender, and sexuality.
With a distinctive focus both on methodologies and theoretical frameworks, the Handbook includes 40 state-of-the art chapters from international authorities. Each chapter provides a concise and critical discussion of a methodological approach, an empirical study to model the approach, a discussion of real-world applications, and further reading. Each section also contains a chapter by leading scholars in that area, positioning, through their own work and chapters in their part, current state-of-the-art and future directions.
This volume is key reading for all engaged in the study and research of language, gender, and sexuality within English language, sociolinguistics, discourse studies, applied linguistics, and gender studies.
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Foreword
1 Introduction: Language, gender, and sexuality; sketching out the field
Part 1: Variationist approaches
2 Non-binary approaches to gender and sexuality
3 Sexuality as non-binary: A variationist perspective
4 Perception of gender and sexuality
5 Gender diversity and the voice
Part 2: Anthropological and Ethnographic approaches
6 Ethnography and the shifting semiotics of gender and sexuality
7 Gender, language, and elite ethnographies in UK political institutions
8 'Gay, aren't they?' An ethnographic approach to compulsory heterosexuality
9 Anthropological discourse analysis and the social ordering of gender ideology
10 Using Communities of Practice and ethnography to answer sociolinguistic questions
11 Digital ethnography in the study of language, gender, and sexuality
Part 3: Interactional Sociolinguistic approaches
12 Interactional Sociolinguistics: Foundations, developments, and applications to Language, Gender, and Sexuality
13 Leadership and humour at work: Using interactional sociolinguistics to explore the role of gender
14 More than builders in pink shirts: Identity construction in gendered workplaces
15 Interactional Sociolinguistics in language and sexuality research: Benefits and challenges
Part 4: Ethnomethodological and Conversation Analytic approaches
16 The accomplishment of gender in interaction: Ethnomethodological and conversation analytic approaches to gender
17 Feminist Conversation Analysis: Examining violence against women
18 Performance in action: Walking as gendered construction practice in Drag King workshops
19 Gender and sexuality normativities: Using Conversation Analysis to investigate heteronormativity and cisnormativity in interaction
20 Examining girls' peer culture-in-action: Gender, stance, and category work in girls' peer language practices
Section 5: Sociocultural and Critical approaches
21 Language, Gender, and Sexuality: reflections on the field's ongoing critical engagement with the sociopolitical landscape
22 Applying queer theory to language, gender, and sexuality research in schools
23 Text trajectories and gendered inequalities in institutions
24 'I thought you didn't accept gay marriage Fr': Combining Corpus Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis to investigate the representation of gay marriage and the Irish Mammy stereotype in Mrs Brown's Boys
25 The impact of language and gender studies: public engagement and wider communication
Part 6: Poststructuralist approaches
26 Poststructuralist research on language, gender, and sexuality
27 Analysing gendered discourses online: Child-centric motherhood and individuality in Mumsnet Talk
28 Leadership language of Middle Eastern women: Using Feminist Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis to study women leaders in Bahrain
29 Feminist poststructuralism: discourse, subjectivity, the body, and power: the case of the Burkini
30 Affect in language, gender, and sexuality research: studying heterosexual desire
31 Language, gender, and the discursive production of women as leaders
Part 7: Semiotic and Multimodal approaches
32 Gender and sexuality in discourse: Semiotic and multimodal approaches
33 Multimodal constructions of feminism: The transfiguration of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in Vogue
34 Judged and condemned: Semiotic representations of women criminals
35 Confident appearing: Revisiting Gender Advertisements in contemporary culture
36 Doing gender and sexuality intersectionally in multimodal social media practices
Part 8: Corpus Linguistic approaches
37 Lovely nurses, rude receptionists, and patronising doctors: determining the impact of gender stereotyping on patient feedback
38 Investigating gendered language through collocation: The case of mock politeness
39 The South African news media and representations of sexuality
40 Women victims of men who murder: XML mark-up for nomination, collocation, and frequency analysis of language of the law
Index
