Language and woman's place : text and commentaries / / Robin Tolmach Lakoff [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910828726403321
• Autore: Lakoff Robin Tolmach
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023
• ISBN: 0-19-772186-9; 0-19-988330-0; 9786610535453; 1-280-53545-8; 1-282-36698-X; 9786612366987; 0-19-534717-X
• Edizione: [Rev. and expanded ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (322 p.)
• Collana: Studies in language and gender; Oxford scholarship online
• Disciplina: 305.4
• Soggetti: Women - Language; Sex role; Sexism in language; English language - Sex differences; Society
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Previous edition: New York: Harper & Row, 1975.; Previously issued in print: 2004.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.