The Sociolinguistics Reader: Volume 2: Gender and Discourse Arnold Linguistics Readers

Author	Jenny Cheshire Peter Trudgill
Format	Softcover
ISBN	9780340699997
Publisher	Hodder Arnold
Manufacturer	Hodder Arnold

This is a book about gender and discourse. It looks at how gender identities are accomplished through language, and the importance of gender in accounting for language behavior. It also examines sociolinguistic issues surrounding discourse, with reference to the communication of affective meaning, conversational routines, grammaticalization and language change, intertextuality, and cross-cultural discourse patterns and their social implications.

Volume 2 of this two-volume text looks first at patterns of language variation, how gender identities are accomplished through language, and the importance of gender in accounting for language behavior. It goes on to examine sociolinguistic issues surrounding discourse, with reference to the communication of affective meaning, conversational routines, grammaticalization and language change, intertextuality, and cross-cultural discourse patterns and their social implications.