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Review of Gender, Sexuality and Meaning: Linguistic Practice and Politics by Sally McConnel-Ginet

Review of Gender, Sexuality and Meaning: Linguistic Practice and Politics by Sally McConnel-Ginet REVIEW Sally McConnell-Ginet. 2011. Gender, Sexuality, and Meaning: Linguistic Practice and Politics. New York: Oxford University Press. 312 pp. ISBN 97819 5187816 (paperback), price: £19.99 Reviewed by Veronika Koller, Lancaster University Although Sally McConnell-Ginet's writings on language and gender have been of great influence in that area of research, they have, with the exception of Eckert & McConnell-Ginet (2003), been rather dispersed so far. The present volume is a selection of her relevant work published over 25 years, i.e. between the late 1970s and early 2000s, and it is to the credit of Oxford University Press, and the Studies in Language and Gender series editor, Mary Bucholtz, that McConnell-Ginet's work is now available in one volume. As her other publications demonstrate (e.g. Chierchia and McConnell-Ginet 2000), and she herself states in the preface, McConnell-Ginet came to language and gender research through a rather unusual route, namely as a young scholar with a background in philosophy of language, mathematics and formal semantics who found herself up against the task of convening a course in the then nascent field of language and gender studies. The fact that she rose to the challenge and subsequently broadened her own research has without http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Lodz Papers in Pragmatics de Gruyter

Review of Gender, Sexuality and Meaning: Linguistic Practice and Politics by Sally McConnel-Ginet

Koller , , Veronika
Lodz Papers in Pragmatics , Volume 8 (2) – Nov 1, 2012
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REVIEW Sally McConnell-Ginet. 2011. Gender, Sexuality, and Meaning: Linguistic Practice and Politics. New York: Oxford University Press. 312 pp. ISBN 97819 5187816 (paperback), price: £19.99 Reviewed by Veronika Koller, Lancaster University Although Sally McConnell-Ginet's writings on language and gender have been of great influence in that area of research, they have, with the exception of Eckert & McConnell-Ginet (2003), been rather dispersed so far. The present volume is a selection of her relevant work published over 25 years, i.e. between the late 1970s and early 2000s, and it is to the credit of Oxford University Press, and the Studies in Language and Gender series editor, Mary Bucholtz, that McConnell-Ginet's work is now available in one volume. As her other publications demonstrate (e.g. Chierchia and McConnell-Ginet 2000), and she herself states in the preface, McConnell-Ginet came to language and gender research through a rather unusual route, namely as a young scholar with a background in philosophy of language, mathematics and formal semantics who found herself up against the task of convening a course in the then nascent field of language and gender studies. The fact that she rose to the challenge and subsequently broadened her own research has without

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