LINGUIST List 13.2417

Mon Sep 23 2002

Books: Pragmatics/Discourse Analysis

Editor for this issue: Tomoko Okuno <tomokolinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. paul, Pragmatics/Discourse Analysis: Litosseliti/Sunderland (eds.)

			
Title: Gender Identity and Discourse Analysis
Series Title: Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture
			
Publication Year: 2002
			
Publisher: John Benjamins 
 http://www.benjamins.com/
			
Editor: Lia Litosseliti 
Editor: Jane Sunderland 
				
Hardback: ISBN: 1588112136, Pages: viii, 336 pp., Price: USD 90.00

			
Abstract:

Gender and discourse interface in many more epistemological sites than
can be represented in one collection. Gender Identity and Discourse
Analysis therefore focuses on a principled diversity of key sites
within four broad areas: the media, sexuality, education and
parenthood. The different chapters together illustrate how taking a
discourse perspective facilitates understanding of the complex and
subtle ways in which gender is represented, constructed and contested
through language.

The book engages critically with long-running and on-going debates,
but also reflects and develops current understandings of gender,
identity and discourse, particularly the shift from 'gender
differences' to the discoursal s haping of gender. Gender Identity and
Discourse Analysis thus offers not only insights and methodologies of
new empirical studies but also careful theorisations, in particular of
discourse, text, identity and gender.

The collection is a valuable resource for researchers, postgraduates
and advanced undergraduates working in the area of gender and
discourse.

Lingfield(s): Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
			 
Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)