Language and Gender

Abstract

The field of language and gender is methodologically diverse, encompassing approaches that include conversation analysis, corpus linguistics, critical discourse analysis, discursive psychology, linguistic anthropology, and variationist sociolinguistics. Within this diversity, ethnography has long been a key method for interrogating the social semiotic complexities of gender, securing the field's close partnership with linguistic anthropology. This historical review outlines the prominent role played by linguistic anthropology in the theorization of gender by highlighting its enduring methodological and conceptual contributions, while also outlining the ways that interdisciplinary scholarship in language and gender has shaped the course of linguistic anthropology.

Language in the middle: Class and sexuality on the Hinglish continuum

“… 4 4 On ethnography as a key approach in the study of language, gender, and sexuality, see Gaudio (2019); Hall et al (2021); and Hall & Davis (2021). …”

Globalisation, Geopolitics, and Gender in Professional Communication

“…It has been observed in the field of language, gender and sexuality that a geopolitical turn, oriented to hearing across borders and learning from the margins 'by the margins' (Ostermann 2021, 621), is underway, and it is fundamentally a feminist enterprise in its attention to the walls of inequality that stop knowledges from cross-fertilising (Hall, Borba, and Hiramoto 2021;Ostermann 2021). Certainly, the feminist geopolitics literature has long argued a similar point, framing a feminist approach to geopolitics as a question of 'how geopolitical processes are experienced unevenly across different situated populations' (Massaro and Williams 2013, 570) and most importantly offering prospects for transformation and resistance.…”

Globalization, geopolitics, and gender in professional communication. By LouiseMullany and StephanieSchnurr (ed.), London and New York: Routledge. 2022. pp. 240. US$160.00 (Hardback). ISBN: 9781003159674

“…Gender and cultural variables are significant perspectives for examining gender inequality in the workplace as apparatuses of ideology. Language is an empirical medium for information circulation and value transformation in the individual and social spheres, reflecting gender dispositions (Hall et al., 2020). The sociolinguistic approach will reveal how language and discourse in professional communication contain the hidden meaning of traditional gender ideologies.…”

“…Gender and cultural variables are significant perspectives for examining gender inequality in the workplace as apparatuses of ideology. Language is an empirical medium for information circulation and value transformation in the individual and social spheres, reflecting gender dispositions (Hall et al, 2020). The sociolinguistic approach will reveal how language and discourse in professional communication contain the hidden meaning of traditional gender ideologies.The book examines five critical issues related to the conflict discourse about family and work roles (Chapter 2), the discrimination and marginalization which operate through the geopolitically language (Chapter 4), the implications of issues of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, and social class for women leaders and migrant workers on the representation of identity and global challenges (Chapters 3, 5, and 6), the leadership stereotypes based on gender, "thinking leaders, thinking men" (Chapter 7 and 9), and the stereotypes of sex roles in the profession and domestic constructed by the sociocultural order and implemented in the language and category of the professional gender (Chapter 8 and 10).In Chapter 2, Stephanie Schnurr investigates the discourse about family and work by analyzing the successful women interviewed as celebrity leaders from the Middle East, India, the USA, and Nigeria on the TEDx Talks YouTube account.…”