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020 _a9780195187809
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020 _a9780195187816
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040 _aSDU
050 0 0 _aP120
_bM478 G 2011
100 1 _aMcConnell-Ginet, Sally
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245 1 0 _aGender, sexuality, and meaning :
_blinguistic practice and politics /
_cSally McConnell-Ginet.
260 _aNew York :
_bOxford University Press,
_c2011.
300 _a297 p.
490 1 _aStudies in language and gender
505 0 _a1. 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?
505 0 _aHKBU library
518 _aYT2025 M10
520 _a"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"--
650 0 _aLanguage and languages
_xSex differences.
650 0 _aSemantics.
650 0 _aSemantics (Philosophy)
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900 _a= C.1 SDU
942 _cGBE
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