gender and terms of address

[Barbara Kelly]

Dear Anna Maria,
If you are interested in titles you might want to look
at:

Kelly, B. F. 1998. She’s married, she’s divorced,
she’s old, she’s gay: Folklinguistic attitudes to use
of the address term  in Engendering Communication, ed.
Suzanne Wertheim, Ashlee Bailey and Monica
Corston-Oliver. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Women and
Language Group [Proceedings of the Berkeley Women and
Language conference, Berkeley 1998].

Pauwels, A. 1987. Language in transition: a study of
the title “Ms” in contemporary Australian society, In
Pauwels, A. (ed.) Women and language in Australian and
New Zealand Society. Sydney: APP, 129-55.

Pauwels, A. 2001. Spreading the feminist word The case
of the new courtesy title Ms in Australian English,
Gender across languages, ed Hellinger, M.; Bussman,
H., Amsterdam/Philadelphia, John Benjamins Publishing
Company, 1: pp 137-151

Best,

Barb Kelly


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