Language, gender and sexuality

This chapter reviews early research that looked for differences between women’s and men’s language use, before turning to social-constructionist perspectives based on Butler’s model of performativity. Related key theoretical advances are explored, including Ochs’s theory of indexicality, Eckert and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yoong, Melissa
Other Authors: Seargeant, Philip
Format: Book Section
Language:English
Published: Routledge 2018
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/60956/