Words, worlds, and material girls : language, gender, globalization / edited by Bonnie S. McElhinny.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McElhinny, Bonnie S., 1966-

Series:

Language, power, and social process ; 19.

Language, power and social process ; 19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and sex.

Globalization.

Multilingualism.

Physical Description:

vi, 454 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, [2007]

Summary:

This wide-ranging volume focuses on changes in language and gender in ten different national sites as a result of globalization. The papers draw on a variety of sociolinguistic methodologies to consider workplaces, schools, media discourse, beauty pageants, musical stars, and marriages in which 'modern' and 'traditional', 'local' and 'global' identities are constructed and contested.

Contents:

Language, gender and economies in global transitions : provocative and provoking questions about how gender is articulated / Bonnie McElhinny

Symbolically central and materially marginal : women's talk in a Tongan work group / Susan U. Philips

"Re-employment stars" : language, gender and neoliberal restructuring in China / Jie Yang

When Aboriginal equals "at risk" : the impact of institutional discourse on Aboriginal Head Start families / Susanne Miskimmin

Stage goddesses and studio divas in South India : on agency and the politics of voice / Amanda Weidman

Echoes of modernity : nationalism and the enigma of "women's language" in late nineteenth century Japan / Miyako Inoue

Recontextualizing the American occupation of the Philippines : erasure and ventriloquism in colonial discourse around men, medicine and infant mortality / Bonnie McElhinny

Out on video : gender, language and new public spheres in Islamic northern Nigeria / Rudolf P. Gaudio

Gender and bilingualism in the new economy / Monica Heller

African women in Catalan language courses : struggles over class, gender and ethnicity in advanced liberalism / Joan Pujolar

Gender, multilingualism and the American war in Vietnam / Binh Nguyen

Shop talk : branding, consumption and gender in American middle-class youth interaction / Mary Bucholtz

Cosmopolitanism and linguistic capital in China : language, gender and the transition to a globalized market economy in Beijing / Qing Zhang

Gender and interaction in a globalizing world : negotiating the gendered self in Tonga / Niko Besnier.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9783110195743

3110195747

9783110195750

3110195755

OCLC:

174138869