文档介绍：GENDER, LANGUAGE
AND DISCOURSE
Ann Weatherall
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To my daughter Paris, my feminist mother Kathleen
Weatherall, my grandmother Helen Weatherall, my
nana Doris Grady and my great-grandmother,
suffragette, Elizabeth Anne Hall.
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction 1
A brief history of gender and language 2
Gender, language and power 5
Book overview 8
1 Sexist language 10
Introduction 10
Sexism in the English language 12
Cognition and sexist language 26
Chapter summary 30
2 Questions of difference: verbal ability and voice 32
Introduction 32
Debates about questions of difference 34
Verbal ability 42
Gender and voice 49
Chapter summary 53
3 Women's language? 54
Introduction 54
Differences as de®cits in women 56
The empirical avalanche on gender differences in speech 57
Explanations of difference: the dominance approach 64
Explanations of difference: the cultural approach 70
Chapter summary 73
vii
CONTENTS
4 The discursive turn 75
Introduction 75
From language to discourse 76
Discourse as power/knowledge 79
Gender