Gender in interaction : perspectives on femininity and masculinity in ethnography and discourse / edited by Bettina Baron, Helga Kotthoff.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baron, Bettina.

Kotthoff, Helga.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 93.

Gender & beyond, 0922-842X ; new ser., v. 93

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social interaction.

Sex role.

Communication--Sex differences.

Communication.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 352 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this volume, gender is seen as a communicative achievement and as a social category interacting with other social parametres such as age, status, prestige, institutional and ethnic frameworks, cultural and situative contexts. The authors come from a variety of backgrounds such as sociology of communication, anthropological linguistics, sociolinguistics, social psychology, and text linguistics. Masculinity and femininity are conceived of as varying culturally, historically and contextually. All contributions discuss empirical research of communication and the question of whether (and how) gender is a salient variable in discourse. So, one aim of the book is to trace the varying relevance of gender in interaction. Emotion politics, ideology, body concepts, and speech styles are related to ethnographic description of the contexts within which communication takes place. These contexts range from private to public communication, and from mixed-sex to same-sex conversations framed by different cultural backgrounds (Australian, German, Georgian, Turkish, US-American).

Contents:

Gender in Interaction

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Dedication

Table of contents

Preface

Part I: Introduction

Gender and interaction

Part II: Perspectives on gender in childhood and adolescence

Girls' oppositional stances

Constituting the emotions

Notably gendered relations

Far from sugar and spice

Part III: Perspectives on masculinity

Masculinities and men's health

Gender and habitus

"Male honor"

Part IV: Perspectives on femininity

Arguing among scholars

Academic women in the male university field

Gender, emotion, and poeticity in Georgian mourning rituals

Theorizing gender

Subject index

Pragmatics and Beyond New Series.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612254550

9781282254558

1282254553

9789027297419

902729741X

9780585462561

0585462569

OCLC:

705531197