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:

1 online resource (460 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This wide-ranging volume explores how gender and language are used and transformed to discuss, enact, and project social differences in light of global economic and political changes in the late nineteenth, twentieth, and early twenty-first centuries. It presents analyses of language and gender from a broad spectrum of national contexts: Catalonia, Canada, China, India, Japan, Nigeria, Vietnam, Philippines, Tonga, and the United States. Cases studies consider language and gender in changing workplaces, schools and immigrant integration workshops, as well as in new and emerging sites for consumption and the production of identity. They also analyze the changing meanings of multilingualism, and the construction of ideologies about gender and language in colonial and postcolonial/national ideologies. The papers engage with and contribute to theoretical conceptualizations of globalization, cosmopolitanism, (post)colonialism, (trans)nationalism, and public spheres by drawing on a variety of sociolinguistic analytic strategies (variation analysis, media analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, ethnography of speaking, sociology of language, colonial discourse analysis).

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786611993511

9781281993519

1281993514

9783110198805

3110198800

OCLC:

476276351