Words, worlds, and material girls language, gender, globalization / edited by Bonnie S. McElhinny.

Other author McElhinny, Bonnie S., 1966-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoBerlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter,
Descriptionvi, 454 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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SeriesLanguage, power and social process ; 19
Contents Language, gender and economies in global transitions : provocative and provoking questions about how gender is articulated / Bonnie McElhinny -- Symbolically central and materially marginal : women's talk in a Tongan work group / Susan U. Philips -- "Re-employment stars" : language, gender and neoliberal restructuring in China / Jie Yang -- When Aboriginal equals "at risk" : the impact of institutional discourse on Aboriginal Head Start families / Susanne Miskimmin -- Stage goddesses and studio divas in South India : on agency and the politics of voice / Amanda Weidman -- Echoes of modernity : nationalism and the enigma of "women's language" in late nineteenth century Japan / Miyako Inoue -- Recontextualizing the American occupation of the Philippines : erasure and ventriloquism in colonial discourse around men, medicine and infant mortality / Bonnie McElhinny -- Out on video : gender, language and new public spheres in Islamic northern Nigeria / Rudolf P. Gaudio -- Gender and bilingualism in the new economy / Monica Heller -- African women in Catalan language courses : struggles over class, gender and ethnicity in advanced liberalism / Joan Pujolar -- Gender, multilingualism and the American war in Vietnam / Binh Nguyen -- Shop talk : branding, consumption and gender in American middle-class youth interaction / Mary Bucholtz -- Cosmopolitanism and linguistic capital in China : language, gender and the transition to a globalized market economy in Beijing / Qing Zhang -- Gender and interaction in a globalizing world : negotiating the gendered self in Tonga / Niko Besnier.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
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