Ruth Wodak 
Gender and Discourse 

The contributors to this collection offer an essential introduction to the ways in which feminist linguistics and critical discourse analysis have contributed to our understanding of gender and sex. By examining how these perspectives have been applied to these concepts, the contributors provide both a review of the literature, as well as an opportunity to follow the most recent debates in this area.

Gender and Discourse brings together European, American and Australian traditions of research. Through an analysis of a range of `real′ data, the contributors demonstrate the relevance of these theoretical and methodological insights for gender research in particular and social practice in general.

Table of Content

Introduction – Ruth Wodak

Some Important Issues in the Research of Gender and Discourse

Theoretical Debates in Feminist Linguistics – Deborah Cameron

Questions of Sex and Gender

Gender, Power and Practice, or Putting Your Money (and Your Research) Where Your Mouth Is – Victoria de Francisco

Gender and Racism in Discourse – Nora R[um]athzel

Gender and Language in the Workplace – Shari Kendall and Deborah Tannen

Ideologies of Public and Private Language in Sociolinguistics – Bonnie Mc Elhinny

Gender, Discourse and Senior Education – David Corson

Ligatures for Girls, Options for Boys?

Difference Without Diversity – Suzanne Eggins and Rick Iedema

Semantic Orientation and Ideology in Competing Women′s Magazines

`It′s a Game!′ – Alyson Simpson

The Construction of Gendered Subjectivity

Talking Power – Amy Sheldon

Girls, Gender Enculturation and Discourse

Women′s Friendships, Women′s Talk – Jennifer Coates

Storytelling in New Zealand – Janet Holmes

Women′s and Men′s Talk

About the author

Ruth Wodak is Distinguished Professor of Discourse Studies at Lancaster University. Her research interests focus on discourse studies; identity politics; racism, antisemitism and other forms of discrimination; and on ethnographic methods of linguistic field work. She was awarded the Lebenswerk-Preis in 2018, which honors outstanding life work of personalities who are promoting and achieving gender equality.She was awarded the Wittgenstein Prize for Elite Researchers in 1996 and an Honorary Doctorate from University of Örebro in Sweden in 2010. She has held visiting professorships in University of Uppsala, Stanford University, University Minnesota, University of East Anglia, and Georgetown University (Washington, DC). She is a member of the British Academy of Social Sciences and a member of the Academia Europaea.  In 2008, she was awarded the Kerstin Hesselgren Chair of the Swedish Parliament (at University Örebrö).Ruth is co-editor of the SAGE journal Discourse & Society, and of the journals Critical Discourse Studies and Journal of Language and Politics. Recent book publications include: The discourse of politics in action: ‘Politics as Usual’ (2011), Critical Discourse Analysis (4 volumes, 2013), Migration, Identity and Belonging (with G. Delanty and P. Jones, 2011), The Discursive Construction of History: Remembering the German Wehrmacht’s War of Annihilation (with H. Heer, W. Manoschek, and A. Pollak, 2008), The Politics of Exclusion: Debating Migration in Austria (with M. Krzyzanowski, 2009), The SAGE Handbook of Sociolinguistics (with B. Johnstone and P. Kerswill, 2010), Analyzing Fascist Discourse: Fascism in Talk and Text (with J. E. Richardson, 2013), and Rightwing Populism in Europe: Politics and Discourse (with M. Khosravi Nik and B. Mral, 2013).