Date: 30-Jul-2010 From: Sarah Ashley <s.ashleypalgrave.com> Subject: Gender and the Language of Illness: Charteris-Black, Seale E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Gender and the Language of Illness
Published: 2010
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
http://www.palgrave.com
An investigation of the language of people talking about illness, showing the influence of gender, social class and age and revealing conformity and resistance to gender stereotypes.
Content
Acknowledgements Gender and the Language of Illness Methods for Investigating Gender and Language Men's Traditional Discourse of Illness: Distancing and Avoidance A Feminine Discourse of Illness: Transformation and Modality Emotional Disclosure: Socio-Economic Classification, Age and Gender Experience of Support: Gender, Social Class and Age Illness Type and Gender Conclusion Appendix 1 - Men's Key Concepts (full matched sample) Appendix 2 - Women's Key Concepts (full matched sample) Appendix 3 - Significance levels for log likelihood test Appendix 4 - Demographic Sample of the British National Corpus References Index
Linguistic Field(s):
Discourse Analysis
Sociolinguistics
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