Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Foreword

1 Introduction: Language, gender, and sexuality; sketching out the field

Part 1: Variationist approaches

2 Non-binary approaches to gender and sexuality

3 Sexuality as non-binary: A variationist perspective

4 Perception of gender and sexuality

5 Gender diversity and the voice

Part 2: Anthropological and Ethnographic approaches

6 Ethnography and the shifting semiotics of gender and sexuality

7 Gender, language, and elite ethnographies in UK political institutions

8 ‘Gay, aren't they?' An ethnographic approach to compulsory heterosexuality

9 Anthropological discourse analysis and the social ordering of gender ideology

10 Using Communities of Practice and ethnography to answer sociolinguistic questions

11 Digital ethnography in the study of language, gender, and sexuality

Part 3: Interactional Sociolinguistic approaches

12 Interactional Sociolinguistics: Foundations, developments, and applications to Language, Gender, and Sexuality

13 Leadership and humour at work: Using interactional sociolinguistics to explore the role of gender

14 More than builders in pink shirts: Identity construction in gendered workplaces

15 Interactional Sociolinguistics in language and sexuality research: Benefits and challenges

Part 4: Ethnomethodological and Conversation Analytic approaches

16 The accomplishment of gender in interaction: Ethnomethodological and conversation analytic approaches to gender

17 Feminist Conversation Analysis: Examining violence against women

18 Performance in action: Walking as gendered construction practice in Drag King workshops

19 Gender and sexuality normativities: Using Conversation Analysis to investigate heteronormativity and cisnormativity in interaction

20 Examining girls’ peer culture-in-action: Gender, stance, and category work in girls’ peer language practices

Section 5: Sociocultural and Critical approaches

21 Language, Gender, and Sexuality: reflections on the field’s ongoing critical engagement with the sociopolitical landscape

22 Applying queer theory to language, gender, and sexuality research in schools

23 Text trajectories and gendered inequalities in institutions

24 ‘I thought you didn’t accept gay marriage Fr’: Combining Corpus Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis to investigate the representation of gay marriage and the Irish Mammy stereotype in Mrs Brown's Boys

25 The impact of language and gender studies: public engagement and wider communication

Part 6: Poststructuralist approaches

26 Poststructuralist research on language, gender, and sexuality

27 Analysing gendered discourses online: Child-centric motherhood and individuality in Mumsnet Talk

28 Leadership language of Middle Eastern women: Using Feminist Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis to study women leaders in Bahrain

29 Feminist poststructuralism: discourse, subjectivity, the body, and power: the case of the Burkini

30 Affect in language, gender, and sexuality research: studying heterosexual desire

31 Language, gender, and the discursive production of women as leaders

Part 7: Semiotic and Multimodal approaches

32 Gender and sexuality in discourse: Semiotic and multimodal approaches

33 Multimodal constructions of feminism: The transfiguration of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in Vogue

34 Judged and condemned: Semiotic representations of women criminals

35 Confident appearing: Revisiting Gender Advertisements in contemporary culture

36 Doing gender and sexuality intersectionally in multimodal social media practices

Part 8: Corpus Linguistic approaches

37 Lovely nurses, rude receptionists, and patronising doctors: determining the impact of gender stereotyping on patient feedback

38 Investigating gendered language through collocation: The case of mock politeness

39 The South African news media and representations of sexuality

40 Women victims of men who murder: XML mark-up for nomination, collocation, and frequency analysis of language of the law

Index

About the Author

Jo Angouri is Professor and the University-level Academic Director for Education and Internationalisation at the University of Warwick, UK, and Visiting Distinguished Professor at Aalto University, School of Business, Finland. She is the author of Culture, Discourse, and the Workplace. Jo's research areas include leadership and teamwork in high-pressure, high-risk professional settings; language, politics, and ideology; and migration, mobility, and multilingualism.

Judith Baxter was Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics at Aston University, UK. Her areas of research specialism included gender and language, discourse of leadership, and feminist poststructuralist discourse analysis. She wrote numerous journal articles on these topics as well as four acclaimed monographs.

Reviews

This comprehensive Handbook provides an invaluable survey of the wide range of theories and especially methodologies embraced by researchers world-wide to illuminate the relationship between language, gender and sexuality. It provides both newcomers and established scholars with access to the latest state-of-the-art research and offers valuable insights into how this contributes to understanding and addressing real world issues. Janet Holmes, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand