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Victoria L. Bergvall, Janet M. Bing, & Alice F. Freed (eds.), Rethinking language and gender research: Theory and practice. (Real Language series.) London: Longman, 1996, Pp. xi, 303.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 1999

Patricia C. Nichols
Patricia C. Nichols
Affiliation:
Linguistics, San José State University, San Jose, CA 95192-0093, pnichols@email.sjsu.edu
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Abstract

Linguistics, as one of the last academic disciplines in the US to adopt guidelines for gender-inclusive language (Thorne 1998), has not been in the forefront of the analysis of language and gender. Indeed, it has been slow to give – either to the social context of language use, or to the socially constructed concept of gender – the kind of serious analytic consideration that it regularly gives to the mental representation of language. This collection of articles edited by Bergvall, Bing & Freed signals a change within the profession itself in its re-examination of basic concepts to be taken into account in future research on language and gender.

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Book Review
Information
Language in Society , Volume 28 , Issue 2 , April 1999 , pp. 295 - 298
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© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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