Language and woman's place : text and commentaries / Robin Tolmach Lakoff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lakoff, Robin Tolmach, author.

Contributor:

Bucholtz, Mary, 1966- editor.

Series:

Studies in language and gender.

Oxford scholarship online.

Studies in language and gender

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Language.

Women.

Sex role.

Sexism in language.

English language--Sex differences.

English language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (322 p.)

Edition:

Rev. and expanded ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Widely recognized as having inaugurated feminist research on the relationship between gender and language, this revised edition includes an introduction and annotations by the author in which she reflects on some of the most widely discussed issues it raises.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Contributors; Editor's Introduction; Author's Introduction: Language and Woman's Place Revisited; THE ORIGINAL TEXT: with Annotations by the Author; Language and Woman's Place; Preface; Part I: Language and Woman's Place; 1. Introduction; 2. Talking Like a Lady; 3. Talking about Women; 4. Conclusion; Part II: Why Women Are Ladies; 1. Introduction; 2. Forms of Politeness; 3. Women and Politeness; 4. Conclusion; Bibliography; Annotations; COMMENTARIES; Part I: Contexts; 1 Changing Places: Language and Woman's Place in Context

2 "Radical Feminist" as Label, Libel, and Laudatory Chant: The Politics of Theoretical Taxonomies in Feminist Linguistics3 Positioning Ideas and Gendered Subjects: "Women's Language" Revisited; 4 Language and Woman's Place: Picking Up the Gauntlet; Part II: Concepts; 5 Power, Lady, and Linguistic Politeness in Language and Woman's Place; 6 Cultural Patterning in Language and Woman's Place; 7 The Good Woman; 8 Language and Marginalized Places; Part III: Femininities; 9 Exploring Women's Language in Japanese

10 "Women's Language" and Martha Stewart: From a Room of One's Own to a Home of One's Own to a Corporation of One's Own11 Public Discourse and the Private Life of Little Girls: Language and Woman's Place and Language Socialization; 12 Mother's Place in Language and Woman's Place; Part IV: Power; 13 Doing and Saying: Some Words on Women's Silence; 14 Computer-Mediated Communication and Woman's Place; 15 Linguistic Discrimination and Violence against Women: Discursive Practices and Material Effects; 16 What Does a Focus on "Men's Language" Tell Us about Language and Woman's Place?

Part V: Women's Places17 Gender, Identity, and "Strong Language" in a Professional Woman's Talk; 18 The New (and Improved?) Language and Place of Women in Japan; 19 "I'm Every Woman": Black Women's (Dis)placement in Women's Language Study; 20 The Anguish of Normative Gender: Sociolinguistic Studies among U.S. Latinas; 21 Contradictions of the Indigenous Americas: Feminist Challenges to and from the Field; Part VI: Sexualities; 22 Language and Woman's Place: Blueprinting Studies of Gay Men's English; 23 The Way We Wish We Were: Sexuality and Class in Language and Woman's Place

24 "I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar": The Importance of Linguistic Stereotype for Lesbian Identity Performances25 As Much as We Use Language: Lakoff's Queer Augury; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Previous edition: New York: Harper & Row, 1975.

Previously issued in print: 2004.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-772186-9

0-19-988330-0

9786610535453

1-280-53545-8

1-282-36698-X

9786612366987

0-19-534717-X

OCLC:

476259813

Publisher Number:

2027/heb08441 hdl