9.744, Books: Sociolinguistics

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Subject: 9.744, Books: Sociolinguistics

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Date:  Tue, 19 May 1998 16:25:43 +0100
From:  Simon.Collins at awl.co.uk (Simon Collins)
Subject:  Sociolinguistics

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Date:  Tue, 19 May 1998 16:25:43 +0100
From:  Simon.Collins at awl.co.uk (Simon Collins)
Subject:  Sociolinguistics

     WOMEN CHANGING LANGUAGE
     ANNE PAUWELS,
     Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at the
     University of New England, Armidale, Australia.

     Paper      0-582-09962-5
     Hardback   0-582-09961-7
     280 pages  1998
     Real Language Series
     Longman
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     'Women Changing Language' documents and discusses feminist language
     reform, looking at the initiatives and actions of women around the
     world to change the biased representation of the sexes in language.
     The book pays tribute to the activities of many women who have helped
     debunk myths about the relationship between women and language, for
     example that women are 'consumers' of language and men are 'makers' of
     meaning and creators of language rules. The study reverses this view,
     concentrating on women as meaning 'makers'.

     Women are shown to be language activists who readily challenge sexist
     language assumptions and practices. The discussion around feminist
     language reform is approached from a language planning perspective,
     which has until now been given little recognition. Moreover, for the
     first time, this study adopts multilingual and multicultural
     dimensions, drawing examples from Europe and Asia. The extensive
     collection of multilingual data reveals diversity as well as
     similarities between languages in the expression and coding of sexism.
     The study also stresses the need to bear in mind that different
     cultural attitudes can have varied effects on the acceptance and
     success of language reform.

     This book is highly recommended for students and lecturers in
     sociolinguistics, women's studies, critical discourse analysis as well
     as the sociology of language.

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     of contents for this title can be viewed at the Longman Linguistics
     on-line catalogue at:

     http://www.awl-he.com/linguistics

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Utrech Institute of Linguistics	
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