Language, gender and sexuality

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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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Main Author:	Yoong, Melissa
Other Authors:	Seargeant, Philip
Format:	Book Section
Language:	English
Published:	Routledge 2018
Subjects:	social-constructionist performativity indexicality gender discourse masculinities postfeminist
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/60956/

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