TY - BOOK AU - McElhinny,Bonnie S. TI - Words, worlds, and material girls: language, gender, globalization T2 - Language, power, and social process SN - 9783110198805 AV - P120.S48 W67 2007eb U1 - 306.44 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Berlin, New York PB - Mouton de Gruyter KW - Language and sex KW - Globalization KW - Multilingualism KW - Langage et sexualité KW - Mondialisation KW - Multilinguisme KW - globalism KW - aat KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES KW - Linguistics KW - Sociolinguistics KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Globalisierung KW - gnd KW - Sprache KW - Geschlechterrolle KW - Sekseverschillen KW - gtt KW - Sociolinguïstiek KW - Internationalisatie KW - Aborigines KW - Electronic book KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Language, gender and economies in global transitions : provocative and provoking questions about how gender is articulated / Bonnie McElhinny -- Symbolically central and materially marginal : women's talk in a Tongan work group / Susan U. Philips -- "Re-employment stars" : language, gender and neoliberal restructuring in China / Jie Yang -- When Aboriginal equals "at risk" : the impact of institutional discourse on Aboriginal Head Start families / Susanne Miskimmin -- Stage goddesses and studio divas in South India : on agency and the politics of voice / Amanda Weidman -- Echoes of modernity : nationalism and the enigma of "women's language" in late nineteenth century Japan / Miyako Inoue -- Recontextualizing the American occupation of the Philippines : erasure and ventriloquism in colonial discourse around men, medicine and infant mortality / Bonnie McElhinny -- Out on video : gender, language and new public spheres in Islamic northern Nigeria / Rudolf P. Gaudio -- Gender and bilingualism in the new economy / Monica Heller -- African women in Catalan language courses : struggles over class, gender and ethnicity in advanced liberalism / Joan Pujolar -- Gender, multilingualism and the American war in Vietnam / Binh Nguyen -- Shop talk : branding, consumption and gender in American middle-class youth interaction / Mary Bucholtz -- Cosmopolitanism and linguistic capital in China : language, gender and the transition to a globalized market economy in Beijing / Qing Zhang -- Gender and interaction in a globalizing world : negotiating the gendered self in Tonga / Niko Besnier N2 - This wide-ranging volume focuses on changes in language and gender in ten different national sites as a result of globalization. The papers draw on a variety of sociolinguistic methodologies to consider workplaces, schools, media discourse, beauty pageants, musical stars, and marriages in which 'modern' and 'traditional', 'local' and 'global' identities are constructed and contested UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=274372 ER -