Question re "basic linguistics"

Thu Jan 13 21:38:52 UTC 2011

Dear Elena,

For example, I've just ordered the following book:

Title:LANGUAGE, GENDER AND SEXUAL IDENTITY: POSTSTRUCTURALIST PERSPECTIVES.

Author:MOTSCHENBACHER, HEIKO

Publisher:JOHN BENJAMINS Place of Publication:AMSTERDAM

Pub Year:2010 ISBN:9789027287502 Country Of Origin:Netherlands

Binding:eBook Pagination:209 P.

Series ID:29960 ISSN:1385-7908

Content Level:ADV-AC YBP Select:Research-Recommended

LC Class:P120.S48M68 2010

Subject Headings:1. LANGUAGE & LANGUAGES--SEX DIFFERENCES. 2. SEMANTICS.

If your student goes to WorldCat and put in the keywords "language sex differences", a great many books will be cited.  I tried adding the keyword legal and law and didn't come up with anything that seemed to match the topic in a significant way.

I also searched the database LLBA [Language & Linguistics Behavioral Abstracts] and came up with the following articles which might be of some interest:

Archibald, James. "Sex and Textness: Do Men and Women Write and Rewrite the Same Way?" Linguistic Insights - Studies in Language and Communication 125 (2010): 59-83.

Azuelos-Atias, Sol. "The Rationality of Legal Argumentation." Pragmatics & Cognition 17.2 (2009): 383-401.

Babic, Stjepan. "Croatian Language, Legislation and Equality of Sexes." Jezik 53.3 (2006): 81-7.

Bahm, Kenneth Thomas. Law, Language, and Sex Difference: A Study of Language use by Female and Male Attorneys in Criminal Trials in the United States.1994 United States: Available from UMI, Ann Arbor, MI. Order No. DA9403050.

Beck, Christina S., Sandra L. Ragan, and Lynda Lee Kaid. "The Doing of Gender through Cross-Examination." The Lynching of Language: Gender, Politics, and Power in the Hill-Thomas Hearings. Ed. Ragan, Sandra L., Bystrom, Dianne G., Kaid,Lynda Lee and Christina S. Beck. Urbana, IL: U Illinois Press, 1996. 24-43.

Cacciaguidi-Fahy, Sophie. "Some Reflections on the Linguistics of Law Or Jurilinguistics." International Journal for the Semiotics of Law/Revue Internationale de Semiotique Juridique 21.4 (2008): 311-7.

Ehrlich, Susan. "The Discursive Reconstruction of Sexual Consent." Discourse & Society 9.2 (1998): 149-71.

---. "Legal Discourse and the Cultural Intelligiblity of Gendered Meanings." Journal of Sociolinguistics 11.4 (2007): 452-77.

---. "Legal Institutions, Nonspeaking Recipiency and Participants' Orientations." Discourse & Society 13.6 (2002): 731-47.

Gibson, Kara Lynn. Language and Power in a Louisiana Murder Trial: Discourse Features in Witness Testimony.2001 United States: Available from UMI, Ann Arbor, MI. Order No. DA3016549.

Irmen, Lisa, and Vera Steiger. "On the History of the Generic use of the Masculine Gender: Linguistic, Philosophical, and Psychological Aspects in Historical Discourse." Zeitschrift fur germanistische Linguistik 33.2-3 (2005): 212-35.

Lenoble-Pinson, Michele. "Feminizing Profession Names in a Legal Language." International Journal for the Semiotics of Law/Revue Internationale de Semiotique Juridique 21.4 (2008): 337-46.

Levi, Judith N. "The Study of Language in the Judicial Process." Language in the Judicial Process. Ed. Judith N. Levi and Anne Graffam Walker. New York, NY: Plenum Press, 1990. 3-35.

Muncaciu-Codarcea, Emilia. "The Language of Women and Men. Research in Sociolinguistics." Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai: Philologia 46.1-2 (2001): 131-48.

Oversteegen, Leonoor, and Olga Missioura. "Language and Gender in the Legal Profession. A Stylistic Analysis of Female and Male Lawyers' Pleas." neerlandistiek.nl 9 (2009): [np].

Tieszen, Bozena, and Heather Pantoga. "Gender-Based Miscommunication in Legal Discourse and its Impact on the Clarity of Legal Language." International Journal for the Semiotics of Law/Revue Internationale de Semiotique Juridique 19.1 (2006): 69-80.

Trinch, Shonna. "The Pragmatic use of Gender in Latina Women's Legal Narratives of Abuse." The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law 14.1 (2007): 51-83.

Voss, James F., and Julie A. Van Dyke. "Narative Structure, Information Certainty, Emotional Content, and Gender as Factors in a Pseudo Jury Decision-Making Task." Discourse Processes 32.2-3 (2001): 215-43.

Best,

June

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Bibliographer for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies

Bibliographer for General Linguistics

Room 263 Regenstein Library

University of Chicago

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Chicago, IL  60637

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Subject: [SEELANGS] Question re "basic linguistics"

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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