Gender, language, & global processes

[Barbara LeMaster]

Dear Ekaterina,

I am just checking up on you.  Everything going okay with your thesis?

Barbara
On Feb 22, 2006, at 12:50 AM, Ekaterina Litvinova wrote:

> Dear Marisol,
>  
> I'm dealing with the gender differentiation in the written speech and 
> more specifically in the Internet. I'd love to have a chance to read 
> the part of your dissertation you mentioned in the letter.
>  
> Thank you,
>  
> Ekaterina Litvinova, Moscow State University, Russia.
>
> Marisol del-Teso-Craviotto <deltesm at MUOHIO.EDU> wrote:
>> One area that may be interesting for you is the Internet. In my own
>> research on chat rooms I have observed conversational practices that
>> differ from room to room, but I have also found that some strategies
>> are present in US and Spanish chats, even if the language of
>> interaction is different. There seems to be an "Internet culture"
>> that goes beyond geographical and cultural boundaries, although the
>> existence of such "trans-culture" has been mostly explored in the
>> communication literature, and not so much in the linguistic arena, so
>> there are more questions to be asked than answers I can point you to.
>> If you're interested, I could send you the part of my dissertation
>> that deals with gender and sexual identity performances in dating
>> chats and shows that local and global cultures coexist in chat
>> interactions.
>> Hope this helps,
>> Marisol
>>
>>
>>
>> >Dear all
>> >
>> >I want to initiate a new thread on the topic of gender, language, &
>> >global processes. The self-serving reason being that I am working
>> >on my little contribution for the first issue of our journal, Gender
>> >& Language, focusing on this topic. If you remember, the articles
>> >in the first issue focus on important and under-explored issues in
>> >language & gender, so that's the background I'm working with. Under
>> >the la! bel "global processes" I want to include transnationalism in
>> >its different forms (e.g., migrations, remittances, seasonal labour,
>> >multiple allegiances), as well as more canonical global processes.
>> >I also want to emphasize the local experience of global processes,
>> >e.g., that of call-center workers in Bangalore who are expected to
>> >learn American or British accents as a condition for employment in
>> >the global service industry, even though they may never have the
>> >first-hand experience of moving.
>> >
>> >As you may know, anthropologists have long been concerned with these
>> >processes and experiences, but linguistic anthropologists and
>> >sociolinguists have been slower at catching on to the wealth of
>> >insights that one can gain about (a) gender, (b) language, and (c)
>> >globality from a focus on the intersection of the three.
>> >
>> >What works have you found useful at this intersection?
>> >
>> >Looking forward to hearing about works I may not know.
>> >
>> >Niko
>> >
>> >Niko Besnier
>> >Professor of Cultural Anthropology, University of Amsterdam
>> >Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
>>
>>
>> -- 
>>
>> Marisol del-Teso-Craviotto
>> Assistant Professor
>> 253 Irvin Hall
>> Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese
>> Miami University
>> Oxford, OH 45056
>>
>> Tel: (513) 529-4519
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Barbara LeMaster
Professor
Departments of Anthropology and Linguistics
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