presents an up-to-date introduction to language and gender
includes diverse work from a range of cultural, including non-Western, contexts, and represents a range of methodological approaches
gathers together influential readings from key names in the discipline, including: Deborah Cameron, Mary Haas and Deborah Tannen.
Written by an experienced teacher and researcher in the field, Language and Gender is an essential resource for students and researchers of Applied Linguistics.
The accompanying...
Language and Gender:
presents an up-to-date introduction to language and gender
This advanced textbook critically reviews a range of theoretical and empirical work on gendered discourses, and explores how gendered discourses can be identified, described and named. It also examines the actual workings of discourses in terms of construction and their potential to 'damage'. For upper-level undergraduates and graduate students in discourse analysis, gender studies, social psychology and media studies.
This advanced textbook critically reviews a range of theoretical and empirical work on gendered discourses, and explores how gendered discourses can b...
This advanced textbook critically reviews a range of theoretical and empirical work on gendered discourses, and explores how gendered discourses can be identified, described and named. It also examines the actual workings of discourses in terms of construction and their potential to 'damage'. For upper-level undergraduates and graduate students in discourse analysis, gender studies, social psychology and media studies.
This advanced textbook critically reviews a range of theoretical and empirical work on gendered discourses, and explores how gendered discourses can b...
This is an original, scholarly yet accessible contribution to the field of children's fiction. It focuses on gender in relation to children's fiction and the role that language plays in this relationship. Girls' and boys' reading itself is looked at, as well as the books that they encounter - including the Harry Potter series, Louis Sachar's prizewinning Holes, fairy tales and school reading schemes.
The book treats fiction as fiction, using as its guiding principles the multimodality of much children's fiction; that fiction is almost always dialogic; that the feminist...
This is an original, scholarly yet accessible contribution to the field of children's fiction. It focuses on gender in relation to children's ficti...
Over the past few decades there have been intense debates in education surrounding children s literacy achievement and ways to promote reading, particularly that of boys. The "Harry Potter" book series has been received enthusiastically by very many children, boys and girls alike, but has also been constructed in popular and media discourses as a children s, particularly a boys, literacy saviour. "Children s Literacy Practices and Preferences: Harry Potter and Beyond" provides empirical evidence of young people s reported literacy practices and views on reading, and of how they see how the...
Over the past few decades there have been intense debates in education surrounding children s literacy achievement and ways to promote reading, par...
