Selected rev. papers, with one additional paper, of a conference held during the 1993 Linguistic Institute in Columbus, Ohio, July 16-19, 1993; the conference was sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Women in Linguistics of the Linguistic Society of America. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Consensual sex or sexual harassment: negotiating meaning / Susan Ehrlich and Ruth King. Language-gender interface: challenging co-optation / Deborah Cameron -- Language and gender research in an experimental setting / Alice F. Freed -- Floor management and power strategies in adolescent conversation / Alice Greenwood -- Women, men and prestige speech forms: a critical review / Deborah James -- Storytellers and gatekeepers in economics / Livia Polanyi and Diana Strassmann -- Consensual sex or sexual harassment: negotiating meaning / Susan Ehrlich and Ruth King. Black feminist theory and African American women's linguistic practice / Mary Bucholtz. Dealing with gender identity as a sociolinguistic variable / Miriam Meyerhoff -- Shifting gender positions among Hindi-speaking hijras / Kira Hall and Veronica O'Donovan -- Black feminist theory and African American women's linguistic practice / Mary Bucholtz.
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