New Book: 'GENDER AND LANGUAGE RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES'

Wed Jul 16 09:32:50 UTC 2008

Dear all,

You will have seen (at the IGALA5 conference and elsewhere) details of this new book:

Gender and Language Research Methodologies

Eds. Kate Harrington, Lia Litosseliti, Helen Sauntson and Jane Sunderland

Palgrave Macmillan (2008)

The book has just been published, and you can now find more information on the IGALA website, as well as here:
http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=280346#Authors

I'm also attaching a text version of the details below.
We hope you will find this book useful, and we're looking forward to receiving your comments and hearing from potential reviewers.

With best wishes,
from the Editors

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Gender and Language Research Methodologies

Eds. Kate Harrington, Lia Litosseliti, Helen Sauntson and Jane Sunderland

Palgrave Macmillan (2008)

Description

Gender and Language Research Methodologies draws together for the first time the main current methodological approaches to the study of language and gender. These include sociolinguistics and ethnography, corpus linguistics, conversation analysis, discursive psychology, critical discourse analysis, feminist post-structuralist discourse analysis and queer theory. Each 'approach' is introduced by one of its key proponents in the field (including Ruth Wodak on CDA, Celia Kitzinger on conversation analysis and Judith Baxter on feminist post-structuralist discourse analysis), and this is followed by chapters illustrating uses of the approach. Readers (including postgraduate researchers) are thus able to consider which approach may be relevant to a given research project. They are also encouraged to consider the important question of the combination of approaches: which approaches are (and are not) compatible. In sum, this book explicitly addresses and constructively problematises what in many monographs and edited collections is left implicit and unquestioned.

Contents 

Notes on Contributors

Current Research Methodologies in Gender and Language Study: Key Issues; J.Sunderland & L.Litosseliti

PART 1: SOCIOLINGUISTICS AND ETHNOGRAPHY
Sociolinguistic and Ethnographic Approaches to Language and Gender; J.Swann & J.Maybin
Reconstructing the Sex Dichotomy in Language and Gender Research: Some Advantages of Using Correlational Sociolinguistics; A.K.Hultgren
Negotiating Methodologies: Making Language and Gender Relevant in the Professional Workplace; L.Mullany
Gender, Ethnicity and Religion in Spontaneous Talk and Ethnographic-Style Interviews: Balancing Perspectives of Researcher and Researched; P.Pichler

PART 2: CORPUS LINGUISTICS
'Eligible' Bachelors and 'Frustrated' Spinsters: Corpus Linguistics, Gender and Language; P.Baker
Perpetuating Difference? Corpus Linguistics and the Gendering of Reported Dialogue; K.Harrington
The English Vocabulary of Girls and Boys: Similarities or Differences? Evidence From a Quantitative Study; R.Jimenez Catalan & J.Ojeda Alba

PART 3: CONVERSATION ANALYSIS
Conversation Analysis: Technical Matters for Gender Research; C.Kitzinger
Categories, Actions and Sequences: Formulating Gender in Talk-In-Interaction; E.Stokoe

PART 4: DISCURSIVE PSYCHOLOGY
Discursive Psychology and the Study of Gender: A Contested Space; N.Edley & M.Wetherell
Discursive 'Embodied' Identities of 'Half' Girls in Japan: A Multi-Perspectival Approach; L.D.Kamada

PART 5: CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
Controversial Issues in Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis; R.Wodak
CEOs and 'Working Gals': The Textual Representation and Cognitive Conceptualisation of Businesswomen in Different Discourse Communities; V.Koller
Harnessing a Critical Discourse Analysis of Gender in Television Fiction; K.Kosetzi

PART 6: FEMINIST POST-STRUCTURALIST DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
Feminist Post-Structuralist Discourse Analysis - A New Theoretical and Methodological Approach?; J.Baxter
Interwoven and Competing Gendered Discourses in a Preschool EFL Lesson; H.Castaneda-Pena

PART 7: QUEER THEORY
The Contributions of Queer Theory to Gender and Language Research; H.Sauntson
Queering Gay Men's English; W.Leap

References
Index

Dr Lia Litosseliti
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Senior Lecturer in Linguistics
Department of Language and Communication Science
City University
Northampton Square
London EC1V 0HB
UK

l.litosseliti at city.ac.uk <mailto:l.litosseliti at city.ac.uk> 
http://www.city.ac.uk/lcs/biographies/llitosseliti.html <http://www.city.ac.uk/lcs/biographies/llitosseliti.html> 

For the Gender and Language Journal (details and subscriptions), see: http://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/main.asp?jref=60 <http://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/main.asp?jref=60>  
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