1st Edition

The Sociolinguistics Reader Volume 2: Gender and Discourse

Edited By Jenny Cheshire, Peter Trudgill Copyright 1997
416 Pages
by Routledge

412 Pages
by Routledge

The Sociolinguistics Reader presents a state-of-the-art account of the discipline in the closing years of the twentieth century. Volume 2: Gender and Discourse in the first section looks at patterns of language variation, examining how gender identities are accomplished through language, and the importance of gender in accounting for language behaviour. Section II, meanwhile, examines the... Read more
Introduction
Discourse.

Biography

Peter Trudgill, Honorary Professor in Sociolinguistics, University of East Anglia, UK
Jenny Cheshire, Professor of Linguistics, Queen Mary, University of London, UK