1. Historical perspectives: 1.1. Introduction: the gender debate
1.2. The 'deficit' approach
1.3. The variationist approach to gender study
1.4. The 'dominance' approach
1.5. The 'difference' approach
1.6. The 'diversity' approach
1.7. Gendered language: censorship or correction
1.8. The 'performance' approach
1.9. Recognising and celebrating diverse identities
1.10. Conclusion
2. Language and gender: 2.1. Introduction
2.2. Defining gender: it's all in the name
2.3. Male firstness: word order and generic terms
2.4. Marking gender
2.5. Patterns and metaphors
2.6. Cleaning up language
2.7. Conclusion
3. Gender and representation: 3.1. Introduction
3.2. Exploring gender and discourse
3.3. Semiotics: Signs and gender
3.4. Representing gender through metaphor
3.5. Gender and power
3.6. Gender and social actor representation
3.7. Different discourses about gender
3.8. Gender representation in the media: health magazines
3.9. Gender and argumentation theory
3.10. Gender representation in corpus data: talking and writing about sports people
3.11. Conclusion
4. Gender and identity: 4.1. Introduction
4.2. Identity in discourse: socially constructed selves in private talk
4.3. Exploring identity and masculinities
4.4. Identity and constructing selves through phonological choices
4.5. Occupational talk: conveying a gendered identity in the workplace
4.6. Social constructing self: performing gender in public and written contexts
4.7. Performing and constructing gender identity in a modern world
4.8. Conclusion
5. Exploring gender: applying research methods to data: 5.1. Introduction
5.2. Creating your own research project
5.3. Finding spoken data
5.4. Analysing conversations and making transcripts
5.5. Reading about language and gender
5.6. Acknowledging your sources
5.7. Practising decision-making
5.8. Conclusion
Ideas and answers
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