The Routledge Handbook of Language, Gender, and Sexuality

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Jo Angouri, Judith Baxter
Routledge, Apr 26, 2021 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 650 pages

Shortlisted for BAAL (British Association for Applied Linguistics) Book Prize 2022

The Routledge Handbook of Language, Gender, and Sexuality provides an accessible and authoritative overview of this dynamic and growing area of research. Covering cutting-edge debates in eight parts, it is designed as a series of mini edited collections, enabling the reader, and particularly the novice reader, to discover new ways of approaching language, gender, and sexuality.

With a distinctive focus both on methodologies and theoretical frameworks, the Handbook includes 40 state-of-the art chapters from international authorities. Each chapter provides a concise and critical discussion of a methodological approach, an empirical study to model the approach, a discussion of real-world applications, and further reading. Each section also contains a chapter by leading scholars in that area, positioning, through their own work and chapters in their part, current state-of-the-art and future directions.

This volume is key reading for all engaged in the study and research of language, gender, and sexuality within English language, sociolinguistics, discourse studies, applied linguistics, and gender studies.

Contents

List of figures
PART I
a variationist perspective
Perception of gender and sexuality
Ethnography and the shifting semiotics of gender and sexuality
Gender language and elite ethnographies in UK political institutions
Gay arent they? An ethnographic approach to compulsory heterosexuality
Anthropological discourse analysis and the social ordering of gender ideology
Applying queer theory to language gender and sexuality research in schools
Text trajectories and gendered inequalities in institutions
discourse analysis to investigate the representation of gay marriage and the Irish Mammy
public engagement and wider communication
Poststructuralist research on language gender and sexuality
childcentric motherhood and individuality in Mumsnet
using feminist poststructuralist discourse
discourse subjectivity the body and power the case of the burkini

Using communities of practice and ethnography to answer sociolinguistic questions
Digital ethnography in the study of language gender and sexuality
foundations developments and applications to language gender
using interactional sociolinguistics to explore the role
identity construction in gendered workplaces
benefits and challenges
ethnomethodological and conversation analytic
examining violence against women
walking as gendered construction practice in drag king workshops
using conversation analysis to investigate
gender stance and category work in girls peer
reflections on the fields ongoing critical engagement with
studying heterosexual desire
Language gender and the discursive production of women as leaders
Semiotic and multimodal approaches
the transfiguration of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
semiotic representations of women criminals
revisiting Gender Advertisements in contemporary culture
Doing gender and sexuality intersectionally in multimodal social media practices
determining the impact of gender
The South African news media and representations of sexuality
Index
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About the author (2021)

Jo Angouri is Professor and the University-level Academic Director for Education and Internationalisation at the University of Warwick, UK, and Visiting Distinguished Professor at Aalto University, School of Business, Finland. She is the author of Culture, Discourse, and the Workplace. Jo's research areas include leadership and teamwork in high-pressure, high-risk professional settings; language, politics, and ideology; and migration, mobility, and multilingualism.

Judith Baxter was Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics at Aston University, UK. Her areas of research specialism included gender and language, discourse of leadership, and feminist poststructuralist discourse analysis. She wrote numerous journal articles on these topics as well as four acclaimed monographs.