Question re "basic linguistics"

[anne marie devlin]

For gender and language I'd look at Deborah Cameron, Deborah Tannen and there is a wonderful book which describes the history of the study of 'female' language: Gender and language : theory and practice / Lia Litosseliti.  It's very comprehensive a fully accessible to a non-specialist.  I'd stay clear of Trudgill as he tends to espouse an essentialist or fixed notion of identity.  the 2 Deborahs have a lot to say on discourse and conversation analysis and identity as performance. But my first port of call would definitely be the Litosseliti book.
Deborah Cameron has a book about genered language in the work place, though I can't remember if there is anything about the legal profession. 
If your student is interested in legal issues and language, it might be an idea to investigate forensic linguistics.  I don't know a lot about it, but it is fascinating.
Hope that's useful
Anne Marie 
> Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 12:16:17 -0700
> From: nathan.hawryluk at ALUMNI.UCALGARY.CA
> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Question re "basic linguistics"
> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
> 
> As a non-linguist, I found sociolinguistics, dialectology and critical
> discourse analysis especially useful when researching communication within
> the Red and Soviet Army (
> http://www.jmss.org/jmss/index.php/jmss/article/view/316). Perhaps the
> following sources will also be beneficial when examining lawyers in court:
> 
> Sociolinguistics
> 
> Chambers, J. K. and Peter Trudgill. *Dialectology*. 2nd ed. Cambridge:
> Cambridge University Press, 1998.
> 
> Chambers, J. K. "Studying Language Variation: An Informal Epistemology." In
> *The Handbook of Language Variation and Change*. Edited by J.K. Chambers,
> Peter Trudgill, and Natalie Schilling-Estes. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers,
> 2002.
> 
> Halliday, M. A. K. *Language and Society*. Edited by Jonathan J. Webster.
> London and New York: Continuum, 2007.
> 
> Hudson, R. A. *Sociolinguistics*. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University
> Press, 1996.
> 
> Trudgill, Peter. *Sociolinguistics: an introduction to language and society*.
> 4th ed. London: Penguin Books, 2000.
> 
> 
> Russian linguistics
> 
> Comrie, Bernard, Gerald Stone, and Maria Polinsky. *The Russian language in
> the twentieth century*. Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press, 1996.
> 
> Cubberley, Paul. *Russian: A Linguistic Introduction*. Cambridge and New
> York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
> 
> Ryazanova-Clarke, Larissa and Terence Wade. *The Russian Language Today*.
> London & New York: Routledge, 1999.
> 
> 
> Language and power/Critical discourse analysis
> 
> Grenoble, Lenore A. "Discourse Analysis." *Glossos *no. 8 (2006): 1–35. (
> http://www.seelrc.org/glossos/issues/8/grenoble.pdf)
> 
> Talbot, Mary, Karen Atkinson, and David Atkinson. *Language and Power in the
> Modern World.* Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 2003. (A
> nice introduction to the subject, the chapter on gender might be a good
> starting place).
> 
> 
> Nathan Hawryluk
> nathan.hawryluk at alumni.ucalgary.ca
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Elena Gapova <e.gapova at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Dear all,
> >
> >
> > I wonder if you can help me out. What books would you recommend
> > to the sociology grad student (master's level) interested in researching
> > how
> > men and women (lawyers) use language (differently?) during the legal
> > process
> > (mostly in court).
> >
> > I am interested in introductory linguistics (something basic) and "gender
> > and language" books.
> > e.g.
> >
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