Using a cross-disciplinary approach, this volume's main concern is to show how language and discourse play key roles in understanding and communicating gender and culture. In addition to linguistics - which provides the starting point and central focus of the book - the author draws on the fields of anthropology, biology, communication, education, economics, history, literary criticism, philosophy, psychology and sociology. The text covers the core areas in the study of language and gender, including how and where gender is indexed in language, how men and women speak, how children acquire...

Using a cross-disciplinary approach, this volume's main concern is to show how language and discourse play key roles in understanding and communicating gender and culture. In addition to linguistics - which provides the starting point and central focus of the book - the author draws on the fields of anthropology, biology, communication, education, economics, history, literary criticism, philosophy, psychology and sociology. The text covers the core areas in the study of language and gender, including how and where gender is indexed in language, how men and women speak, how children acquire...