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Ruth Wodak (ed.), Gender and discourse. (Sage studies in discourse.) London (UK) & Thousand Oaks (CA): Sage, 1997. Pp. ix, 303. Pb $27.95. Helga Kotthoff & Ruth Wodak (eds.), Communicating gender in context. (Pragmatics and beyond, n.s., 42.) Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1998. Pp. xxv, 424. Hb $114.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2000

Joanna Thornborrow
Joanna Thornborrow
Affiliation:
Centre for Language and Communication Research, Cardiff University, P.O. Box 94, Cardiff CF10 3XB, Wales, UK, thornborrowjl@cardiff.ac.uk
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Abstract

These two collections of articles offer a spectrum of current work in the field of language and gender. Contributors to both volumes include some leading researchers in sociolinguistics and discourse analysis from Britain, America, and New Zealand; the Kotthoff & Wodak book also contains work by contributors from Germany, Sweden, Holland, and Austria. Despite the latter volume's stated aim of bridging the gap in scholarly awareness between Europe and the English-speaking world, we are in effect still dealing with work from a particular section of Europe, i.e. essentially northern European and Germanic countries. With the exception of one study of Spanish women's talk, southern and Mediterranean Europe are still largely absent from the language and gender research scene presented here.

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Book Review
Information
Language in Society , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , April 2000 , pp. 266 - 269
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© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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