Format:
1 online resource (460 pages)
ISBN:
9783110198805
Series Statement:
Language, Power and Social Process [LPSP] Ser v.19
Content:
This wide-ranging volume focuses on changes in language and gender in ten different national sites as a result of globalization. The papers draw on a variety of sociolinguistic methodologies to consider workplaces, schools, media discourse, beauty pageants, musical stars, and marriages in which 'modern' and 'traditional', 'local' and 'global' identities are constructed and contested.
Content:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Language, gender and economies in global transitions: Provocative and provoking questions about how gender is articulated -- Chapter 1. Symbolically central and materially marginal: Women's talk in a Tongan work group -- Chapter 2. "Re-employment stars": Language, gender and neoliberal restructuring in China -- Chapter 3. When Aboriginal equals "at risk": The impact of an institutional keyword on Aboriginal Head Start families -- Chapter 4. Stage goddesses and studio divas in South India: On agency and the politics of voice -- Chapter 5. Echoes of modernity: Nationalism and the enigma of "women's language" in late nineteenth century Japan -- Chapter 6. Recontextualizing the American occupation of the Philippines: Erasure and ventriloquism in colonial discourse around men, medicine and infant mortality -- Chapter 7. Out on video: Gender, language and new public spheres in Islamic Northern Nigeria -- Chapter 8. Gender and bilingualism in the new economy -- Chapter 9. African women in Catalan language courses: Struggles over class, gender and ethnicity in advanced liberalism -- Chapter 10. Gender, multilingualism and the American war in Vietnam -- Chapter 11. Shop talk: Branding, consumption, and gender in American middle-class youth interaction -- Chapter 12. Cosmopolitanism and linguistic capital in China: Language, gender and the transition to a globalized market economy in Beijing -- Chapter 13. Gender and interaction in a globalizing world: Negotiating the gendered self in Tonga -- Backmatter.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110195743
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783110195743
Additional Edition:
Print version Words, Worlds, and Material Girls Language, Gender, Globalization
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
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Sociology
Keywords:
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