Gender and language research methodologies / edited by Kate Harrington ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harrington, Kate, 1975-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and sex--Research--Methodology.

Language and sex.

Research.

Methodology.

Physical Description:

xii, 332 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Summary:

Gender and Language Research Methodologies draws together for the first time the main current methodological approaches to the study of language and gender. These include sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, conversation analysis, discursive psychology, critical discourse analysis, feminist post-structuralist discourse analysis and queer theory. Each 'approach' is introduced by one of its key proponents in the field (including Ruth Wodak on CDA, Celia Kitzinger on conversation analysis and Judith Baxter on feminist post-structuralist discourse analysis), and this is followed by chapters illustrating use of the approach. Readers (including postgraduate researchers) are thus able to consider which approach may be relevant to a given research project, and which approaches are (and are not) compatible. In sum, this book explicitly addresses and constructively problematises what in many monographs and edited collections is left implicit and unquestioned.

Contents:

1 Current Research Methodologies in Gender and Language Study: Key Issues / Jane Sunderland, Lia Litosseliti 1

Part 1 Sociolinguistics and Ethnography

2 Sociolinguistic and Ethnographic Approaches to Language and Gender / Joan Swann, Janet Maybin 21

3 Reconstructing the Sex Dichotomy in Language and Gender Research: Some Advantages of Using Correlational Sociolinguistics / Anna Kristina Hultgren 29

4 Negotiating Methodologies: Making Language and Gender Relevant in the Professional Workplace / Louise Mullany 43

5 Gender, Ethnicity and Religion in Spontaneous Talk and Ethnographic-Style Interviews: Balancing Perspectives of Researcher and Researched / Pia Pichler 56

Part 2 Corpus Linguistics

6 'Eligible' Bachelors and 'Frustrated' Spinsters: Corpus Linguistics, Gender and Language / Paul Baker 73

7 Perpetuating Difference? Corpus Linguistics and the Gendering of Reported Dialogue / Kate Harrington 85

8 The English Vocabulary of Girls and Boys: Evidence from a Quantitative Study / Rosa Ma Jimenez Catalan, Julieta Ojeda Alba 103

Part 3 Conversation Analysis

9 Conversation Analysis: Technical Matters for Gender Research / Celia Kitzinger 119

10 Categories, Actions and Sequences: Formulating Gender in Talk-in-Interaction / Elizabeth Stokoe 139

Part 4 Discursive Psychology

11 Discursive Psychology and the Study of Gender: A Contested Space / Nigel Edley, Margaret Wetherell 161

12 Discursive 'Embodied' Identities of 'Half' Girls in Japan: A Multi-Perspectival Approach / Laurel D. Kamada 174

Part 5 Critical Discourse Analysis

13 Controversial Issues in Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis / Ruth Wodak 193

14 CEOs and 'Working Gals': The Textual Representation and Cognitive Conceptualisation of Businesswomen in Different Discourse Communities / Veronika Koller 211

15 Harnessing a Critical Discourse Analysis of Gender in Television Fiction / Konstantia Kosetzi 227

Part 6 Feminist Post-Structuralist Discourse Analysis

16 Feminist Post-Structuralist Discourse Analysis - A New Theoretical and Methodological Approach? / Judith Baxter 243

17 Interwoven and Competing Gendered Discourses in a Pre-School EFL Lesson / Harold Andres Castaneda-Pena 256

Part 7 Queer Theory

18 The Contributions of Queer Theory to Gender and Language Research / Helen Sauntson 271

19 Queering Gay Men's English / William L. Leap 283.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-325) and index.

ISBN:

0230550681

9780230550681

023055069X

9780230550698

OCLC:

223106106