02147cam a22002894a 4500 100331s2011 nyu b 001 0 eng 9780195187809 0195187806 9780195187816 0195187814 SDU P120 M478 G 2011 McConnell-Ginet, Sally 184525 Gender, sexuality, and meaning : linguistic practice and politics / Sally McConnell-Ginet. New York : Oxford University Press, 2011. 297 p. Studies in language and gender 1. Gender, sexuality, and meaning: An overview -- Part I. Politics and scholarship: 2. Language and gender -- 3. Feminism in linguistics -- 4. Difference and language: A linguist's perspective -- Part II. Social practice, social meanings, and selves: 5. Communities of practice: Where language, gender, and power all live -- 6. Intonation in a man's world -- 7. Constructing meaning, constructing selves: Snapshots of language, gender, and class from Belten High -- Part III. Constructing content in discourse: 8. The sexual (re)production of meaning: A discourse-based theory -- 9. Prototypes, pronouns, and persons -- 10. What's in a name?: Social labeling and gender practices -- 11. Queering semantics: Definitional struggles -- Coda: 12. Breaking through the 'glass ceiling': Can linguistic awareness help? HKBU library YT2025 M10 "This volume collects Sally McConnell-Ginet's most important published articles in the last twenty years, which circle around the following themes: language users are actively engaged in making meanings, both as speakers and listeners; linguistics systems and socio-political institutions constrain, but do not determine, communicative possiblities; language is essential to understanding gender and sexuality and their connection to ethnicity, class, race, and other parts of social identity"-- Language and languages Sex differences. Semantics. Semantics (Philosophy) 180107 = C.1 SDU GBE lcc 101598 101598 0 0 lcc 0 P0120 M478 G2011 0 CGB 285257 SDU SDU GEN3 2025-10-27 2 0 P120 M478 G 2011 1000360295 2025-10-27 00:00:00 C.1 2025-10-27 GBE