Researching Language and Gender: A Critical Review

D. Vasanta
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D. Vasanta: Department of Linguistics, Osmania University, Hyderabad 500 007

Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 2001, vol. 8, issue 1, 69-87

Abstract: This article provides a review of some of the major language and gender studies reported pri marily in the English-speaking world during the past three decades. After pointing to the inade quacies of formal linguistic and sociocultural approaches in examining the complex ways in which gender interacts with language use, an alternative theoretical paradigm that gives impor tance to the sociohistorical and political forces residing in the meanings of the resources as well as social identity of the speaker who aims to use those meanings is described. The implications of this shiff from sociocultural to sociohistorical approaches in researching language and gender in the Indian context are discussed in this article.

Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1177/097152150100800104

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