The Handbook of Language, Gender, and Sexuality

Significantly expanded and updated, the second edition of The Handbook of Language, Gender and Sexuality brings together a team of the leading specialists in the field to create a comprehensive overview of key historical themes and issues, along with methodologies and cutting-edge research topics.

• Examines the dynamic ways that women and men develop and manage gendered identities through their talk, presenting data and case studies from interactions in a range of social contexts and different communities
• Substantially updated for the second edition, including a new introduction, 24 newly-commissioned chapters, ten updated chapters, and a comprehensive index
• Includes new chapters on research in non-English speaking countries – from Asia to South America – and cutting-edge topics such as language, gender, and popular culture; language and sexual identities; and language, gender, and socio-phonetics
• New sections focus on key themes and issues in the field, such as methodological approaches to language and gender, incorporating new chapters on conversation analysis, critical discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, and variation theory
• Provides unrivalled geographic coverage and an essential resource for a wide range of disciplines, from linguistics, psychology, sociology, and anthropology to communication and gender studies

Keywords: Applied Linguistics, Language and gender, language and sexuality, language and popular culture, language and sexual identities, sociophonetics, conversation analysis, critical discourse analysis, corpus linguistics and variation theory, sociology of language, psycholinguistics, linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, conversation analysis, language and gender methodology, language and gender identities, language and gender ideologies, language and culture, language and institutions, gender and categorial systematics, gender and online communication, feminist discourse analysis, gender and language research, language and masculinity, language and gender in education, Don Kulick, Bonnie McElhinny, Miriam Meyerhoff, Deborah Cameron, Deborah Tannen, Penelope Eckert, Mary Talbot