Language and Gender: A Reader

by Jennifer Coates (editor)

This wide-ranging Reader comprises a valuable anthology of the key essays in the study of language and gender.

Genres: Linguistics, Nonfiction, Gender, Language, Queer, Textbooks, Feminism

518 pages, Paperback

First published February 12, 1998

Reviews

[Stef Rozitis]

Like most "readers" there was a huge variation between the best and the worst of these articles. There are ones with very detailed research that I struggled to follow and others which frustratingly just give a bunch of common sense and cliches as if it were the objective truth.

It was hard for me to find relevance in some of them, although I guess really they just help to build up the total picture bit by bit. Others were very relevant but had frustratingly little data (the better ones acknowledged this). The best ones were super critical and wary of making hard and fast pronouncements about gender. I saw somewhere online that some places use this as a textbook for linguistics degrees. I think it must be good for that as it makes clear some of the issues and debates in linguistics. I enjoyed the feminist leaning in many of the articles and while the book did not change my life it was probably worthwhile to read all these good and bad articles as part of my own development as a would-be researcher.

[PostYIS]

I highly recommend this text if you ever need to do a master's degree course and/or paper on Language and Gender. If not, I'd give this one a skip.

[Noah Christiansen]

Read:
- Various excerpts

[Phil]

Compilation, textbook for Language and Gender (Ling 367? 2nd writing course)

[Macalester Linguistics]

G 3.0