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"Innovations and Challenges: Women, Language and Sexism brings together an outstanding collection of internationally recognised researchers to recontextualise some of the questions raised by feminist thinkers 40 years ago. The topic of gender and language has evolved tremendously in the last decades and research has contributed in many ways to a heightened awareness of gender-inflected discourse. Many of the issues discussed in the 70s and 80s, however, continue to be a problem as sexism, racism and ageism in discourses in private and institutional contexts have manifested in fresh ways in recent years. In linguistics and discourse-oriented applied research, the question of plain sexism has been side-lined since sexuality and gender identity seem to be the present concerns of the great majority of gender research. By taking linguistically mediated violence as a central topic, this collection's main objective is to explore the different and subtle ways sexism and violence are materialised in discursive practices. In doing so, this book: Takes a multi-stranded investigation into the linguistic and semiotic representations of sexism in societies today from an applied linguistic and semiotic perspective; Combines critical discourse analysis, multimodality, interactional sociolinguistics and corpus methodologies to look at language, visuals and semiotic resources in the context of consumerist culture; Examines the conflicted position of women and the discourses of discrimination that still exists in every strand of modern societies; Contextualises pervasive gender issues and reviewing key gender and language topics that changed the ways we interpret interaction from the early seventies till the present; Focuses on institutional discourses and the questions of how women are excluded or discriminated against in the workplace, the law and educational contexts. This book is essential reading for those studying and researching gender across a wide range of disciplines"--

Cover -- Introduction -- I. Of What We Speak -- II. Why Study the Regulation of Speech: The Canary in a Coal Mine -- III. The Lens of this Research -- 1. Social Control as a paradigm of Criminal Law -- 2. Moral Panic and Social Control -- 3. Economic Status Quo -- IV. Road Map -- Chapter 1 Regulation of Sexualized Speech in the United States -- I. Protected v. Unprotected Sexualized Speech -- 1. The Scarlet Letter of Speech: Obscenity Regulation 1791 to 1957 -- a) Early Years of the Republic to the Civil War -- b) The Comstock Era

Introduction -- Pick-up artists and the seduction industry -- Lexical aspects of pick-up artist discourse -- The pragmatics of pick-up artist interactions -- Conversations in the field -- Teaching and selling seduction -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: Transcription conventions -- Appendix B: Lists of videos included in PUA-Lecture and PUA-How-To -- Glossary of pick-up artist terms.

Controversy over gendered pronouns, for example using the generic "he," has been a staple of feminist arguments about patriarchal language over the last 30 years, and is certainly the most contested political issue in Western feminist linguistics. Most accounts do not extend beyond policy issues like the official institution of non-sexist language. In this volume, Anna Livia reveals continuities both before and after the sexist language refore movement and shows how the creative practices of pronoun use on the part of feminist writers had both aesthetic and political ends. Livia uses

Editor's Introduction. Author's Introduction. Language and Woman's Place: The Original Text with Annotations by Author. Part 1: Context. 1. Changing Places: Language and Woman's Place in Context, Mary Bucholtz. 2. "Radical Feminist" as Label, Libel, and Laudatory Chant: The Politics of Theoretical Taxonomies in Feminist Linguistics, Bonnie McElhinny. 3. Positioning Ideas and Gendered Subjects: "Women's Language" Revisited, Sally McConnell-Ginet. 4. Language and Woman's Place: Picking Up the Gauntlet, Anna Livia. Part 2: Concepts. 5. Power, Lady, and Linguistic Politeness in