Language, Gender, and Sex in Comparative Perspective

Book Overview

Most studies of gender differences in language use have been undertaken from exclusively either a sociocultural or a biological perspective. By contrast, this innovative volume places the analysis of language and gender in the context of a biocultural framework, examining both cultural and biological sources of gender differences in language, as well as the interaction between them. The first two parts of the volume on cultural variation in gender-differentiated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521338077
• ISBN13: 9780521338073
• Release Date: June 1987
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"