1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Language, Gender, and Sexuality
Shortlisted for BAAL (British Association for Applied Linguistics) Book Prize 2022
The Routledge Handbook of Language, Gender, and Sexuality provides an accessible and authoritative overview of this dynamic and growing area of research. Covering cutting-edge debates in eight parts, it is designed as a series of mini edited collections, enabling the reader, and particularly the novice reader, to discover new ways of approaching language, gender, and sexuality.
With a distinctive focus both on methodologies and theoretical frameworks, the Handbook includes 40 state-of-the art chapters from international authorities. Each chapter provides a concise and critical discussion of a methodological approach, an empirical study to model the approach, a discussion of real-world applications, and further reading. Each section also contains a chapter by leading scholars in that area, positioning, through their own work and chapters in their part, current state-of-the-art and future directions.
This volume is key reading for all engaged in the study and research of language, gender, and sexuality within English language, sociolinguistics, discourse studies, applied linguistics, and gender studies.
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Foreword
1 Introduction: Language, gender, and sexuality; sketching out the field
Jo Angouri
Part 1: Variationist approaches
2 Non-binary approaches to gender and sexuality
Penelope Eckert & Robert J. Podesva
3 Sexuality as non-binary: A variationist perspective
Erez Levon
4 Perception of gender and sexuality
Kathryn Campbell-Kibler & deandre miles-hercules
5 Gender diversity and the voice
Lal Zimman
Part 2: Anthropological and ethnographic approaches
6 Ethnography and the shifting semiotics of gender and sexuality
Kira Hall & Jenny L. Davis
7 Gender, language, and elite ethnographies in UK political institutions
Sylvia Shaw
8 ‘Gay, aren't they?' An ethnographic approach to compulsory heterosexuality
Jodie Clark
9 Anthropological discourse analysis and the social ordering of gender ideology
Susan U. Philips
10 Using Communities of Practice and ethnography to answer sociolinguistic questions
Ila Nagar
11 Digital ethnography in the study of language, gender, and sexuality
Piia Varis
Part 3: Interactional sociolinguistic approaches
12 Interactional sociolinguistics: Foundations, developments, and applications to language, gender, and sexuality
Cynthia Gordon & Deborah Tannen
13 Leadership and humour at work: Using interactional sociolinguistics to explore the role of gender
Stephanie Schnurr & Nor Azikin Mohd Omar
14 More than builders in pink shirts: Identity construction in gendered workplaces
Jo Angouri, Meredith Marra, & Shelley Dawson
15 Interactional sociolinguistics in language and sexuality research: Benefits and challenges
Corinne A. Seals
Part 4: Ethnomethodological and conversation analytic approaches
16 The accomplishment of gender in interaction: Ethnomethodological and conversation analytic approaches to gender
Lorenza Mondada
17 Feminist conversation analysis: Examining violence against women
Emma Tennent & Ann Weatherall
18 Performance in action: Walking as gendered construction practice in drag king workshops
Luca Greco
19 Gender and sexuality normativities: Using Conversation Analysis to investigate heteronormativity and cisnormativity in interaction
Stina Ericsson
20 Examining girls’ peer culture-in-action: Gender, stance, and category work in girls’ peer language practices
Ann-Carita Evaldsson
Part 5: Sociocultural and critical approaches
21 Language, gender, and sexuality: reflections on the field’s ongoing critical engagement with the sociopolitical landscape
Lia Litosseliti
22 Applying queer theory to language, gender, and sexuality research in schools
Helen Sauntson
23 Text trajectories and gendered inequalities in institutions
Susan Ehrlich & Tanya Romaniuk
24 ‘I thought you didn’t accept gay marriage Fr’: Combining Corpus Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis to investigate the representation of gay marriage and the Irish Mammy stereotype in Mrs Brown's Boys
Bróna Murphy & María Palma-Fahey
25 The impact of language and gender studies: public engagement and wider communication
Deborah Cameron
Part 6: Poststructuralist approaches
26 Poststructuralist research on language, gender, and sexuality
Bonny Norton
27 Analysing gendered discourses online: Child-centric motherhood and individuality in Mumsnet Talk
Jai Mackenzie
28 Leadership language of Middle Eastern women: Using Feminist Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis to study women leaders in Bahrain
Haleema Al A'Ali
29 Feminist poststructuralism: discourse, subjectivity, the body, and power: the case of the Burkini
Chris Weedon & Amal Hallak
30 Affect in language, gender, and sexuality research: studying heterosexual desire
Kristine Kohler Mortensen & Tommaso M. Milani
31 Language, gender, and the discursive production of women as leaders
Roslyn Appleby
Part 7: Semiotic and multimodal approaches
32 Gender and sexuality in discourse: Semiotic and multimodal approaches
Michelle M. Lazar
33 Multimodal constructions of feminism: The transfiguration of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in Vogue
Linda McLoughlin
34 Judged and condemned: Semiotic representations of women criminals
Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard
35 Confident appearing: Revisiting Gender Advertisements in contemporary culture
Kirsten Kohrs & Rosalind Gill
36 Doing gender and sexuality intersectionally in multimodal social media practices
Sirpa Leppänen & Sanna Tapionkaski
Part 8: Corpus linguistic approaches
37 Lovely nurses, rude receptionists, and patronising doctors: determining the impact of gender stereotyping on patient feedback
Paul Baker & Gavin Brookes
38 Investigating gendered language through collocation: The case of mock politeness
Charlotte Taylor
39 The South African news media and representations of sexuality
Sally Hunt
40 Women victims of men who murder: XML mark-up for nomination, collocation, and frequency analysis of language of the law
Amanda Potts & Federica Formato
Index
Biography
Jo Angouri is Professor and the University-level Academic Director for Education and Internationalisation at the University of Warwick, UK, and Visiting Distinguished Professor at Aalto University, School of Business, Finland. She is the author of Culture, Discourse, and the Workplace. Jo's research areas include leadership and teamwork in high-pressure, high-risk professional settings; language, politics, and ideology; and migration, mobility, and multilingualism.
Judith Baxter was Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics at Aston University, UK. Her areas of research specialism included gender and language, discourse of leadership, and feminist poststructuralist discourse analysis. She wrote numerous journal articles on these topics as well as four acclaimed monographs.
This comprehensive Handbook provides an invaluable survey of the wide range of theories and especially methodologies embraced by researchers world-wide to illuminate the relationship between language, gender and sexuality. It provides both newcomers and established scholars with access to the latest state-of-the-art research and offers valuable insights into how this contributes to understanding and addressing real world issues.
Janet Holmes, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
