Three decades in the field of gender and language

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Tannen
Keyword(s):  
Academic Discourse ◽  
Interactional Sociolinguistics ◽  
Conversational Interaction ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Gender Research ◽  
Language And Gender ◽  
Gendered Patterns ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The One

This essay provides an account of one scholar’s thirty-five-year immersion in language and gender research. I included a chapter on conversations between women and men in That’s Not What I Meant!, my first book for general audiences, as part of an overview of interactional sociolinguistics. Disproportionate interest in that chapter led me to write You Just Don’t Understand, which I assumed would be my last word on the topic. Then insights into gendered patterns turned out to be crucial in all my subsequent books, each of which grew out of the one before. Writing about gendered patterns in conversational interaction raised my own consciousness, illuminating aspects of a previous study that I had overlooked. It also brought me face to face with agonistic conventions in academic discourse, and the distortions and misrepresentations that result from them.

scholarly journals A Literature Study Investigating the Relationship between Language and Gender

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. p64
Author(s):  
Hu Zheng-yan
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Gender Ideologies ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Gender Research ◽  
Lexical Choice ◽  
Language And Gender ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship

Present the literature review focused on the true pictures of language and gender research conducted by scholars abroad and home. The current thesis aims at the differences and similarities in presenting female and male from lexical perspective and through lexicon related discourse analysis explores the connection between the vocabulary and the dominant gender ideologies of the magazine. There are differences and similarities in lexical choice. Reports on men and women both tend to use words, such as children, spouse, and business. Female images constructed by target lexicon differ from men’ and female were regarded as the second gender which is sealed in discourse.

Language and gender

1993 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Joanne Winter ◽  
Gillian Wigglesworth
Keyword(s):  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Panel Discussion ◽  
Linguistic Knowledge ◽  
Gender Research ◽  
Language And Gender ◽  
Australian Context ◽  
The People ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Introductory Discussion

Abstract In our introductory discussion to this Series S volume on language and gender in Australia we argue for the recognition of gender research in a broadened interpretation of applied linguistics. We forecast the place of feminist (applied)1 linguists within a wider understanding of the applications for linguistic knowledge. We discuss how this collection of papers reflects the ongoing developments and changes in language and gender research through the implementation and critique of methods and methodologies. We also present a brief overview of the panel discussion; the people, topics and directions, which was primarily responsible for this publication and forecast some directions and possible challenges for language and gender research in the Australian context.

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