Deborah Cameron (Ed.) 's volume _The Feminist Critique of Language: A
Reader_ Routledge 1998
The volume sets in dialog the arguments for reading language use as
influenced by gender and reading language use as influenced by relative
status and authority ....
Judith
At 07:12 PM 9/20/99 -0700, you wrote:
>
>Hello Victoria,
>
>Check out Elinor Ochs' 1992 article, 'Indexing gender,' in A. Duranti &
>C. Goodwin, _Rethinking Context: Language as an interactive
>phenomenon_, New York, Cambridge. (I recommend the rest of that
>volume, while we're at it!) In that article, Ochs develops links
>between gender, socialization, language, status, through the construct
>of constitutive indexicality. Fairclough and other critical discourse
>analysts use that same construct. In a nutshell, human interactions
>always realize multiple functions, among them the communication &
>(re)production of identities through the association of specific
>language features with roles & routines. Human beings are masters at
>adjusting their language choices to display different identities,
>though of course repertoires have to be developed with time and
>practice, and critically, with access to target language practices &
>routines.
>
>A couple more recommendations: Deborah Poole, 1992, 'Language
>socialization in the second language classroom.' _Language Learning._
>42, 593-616.
>
>Deborah Poole, 1994, 'Differentiation as an interactional consequence
>of routine classroom testing.' _Intl Journal of Qualitative Studies in
>Education_, 7(1), 1-17.
>
>Margerie Orellana has worked on the interplay between language, gender,
>choice, classroom rituals, literacy ... but I don't have the relevant
>(Reading Research Quarterly???) reference. Sorry!
>
>regards, Genevieve
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Judith Diamondstone (732) 932-7496 Ext. 352
Graduate School of Education
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
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