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Editors' Note Transcription Conventions 1 Transcription Conventions 2 Sources Introduction 1 Part I Gender Differences in Pronunciation and Grammar 7 1 Yanyuwa: "Men speak one way, women speak another" 13 John Bradley 2 Sex and Covert Prestige 20 Peter Trudgill 3 Linguistic Variation and Social Function 27 Jenny Cheshire 4 Girl-talk/Boy-talk: Sex Differences in Adolescent Speech 38 Edina Eisikovits 5 Black Women in the Rural South: Conservative and Innovative 49 Patricia C. Nichols 6 Gender and Sociolinguistic Variation 57 Penelope Eckert Part II Gender and Conversational Practice 67 7 Complimenting - A Positive Politeness Strategy 71 Janet Holmes 8 Cooperation and Competition Across Girls' Play Activities 89 Marjorie Harness Goodwin 9 Expressions of Gender: An Analysis of Pupils' Gendered Discourse Styles in Small Group Classroom Discussions 112 Julia Davies 10 Gender and the Use of Exclamation Points in Computer- Mediated Communication: An Analysis of Exclamations Posted to Two Electronic Discussion Lists 126 Carol Waseleski Part III Gender, Power, and Dominance in Mixed Talk 139 11 Women's Place in Everyday Talk: Reflections on Parent-Child Interaction 143 Candace West and Don H. Zimmerman 12 The Sounds of Silence: How Men Silence Women in Marital Relations 153 Victoria Leto DeFrancisco 13 Talk Control: An Illustration from the Classroom of Problems in Analysing Male Dominance of Conversation 161 Joan Swann 14 Participation in Electronic Discourse in a "Feminist" Field 171 Susan C. Herring, Deborah A. Johnson and Tamra DiBenedetto 15 Zuiqian "Deficient Mouth": Discourse, Gender and Domestic Violence in Urban China 183 Jie Yang Part IV Same-Sex Talk 193 16 Gossip Revisited: Language in All-Female Groups 199 Jennifer Coates 17 "Why Be Normal?": Language and Identity Practices in a Community of Nerd Girls 224 Mary Bucholtz 18 Hybrid or In Between Cultures: Traditions of Marriage in a Group of British Bangladeshi Girls 236 Pia Pichler 19 Performing Gender Identity: Young Men's Talk and the Construction of Heterosexual Masculinity 250 Deborah Cameron 20 Pushing at the Boundaries: The Expression of Alternative Masculinities 263 Jennifer Coates 21 Playing the Straight Man: Displaying and Maintaining Male Heterosexuality in Discourse 275 Scott F. Kiesling Part V Women's Talk in the Public Domain 287 22 Female Speakers of Japanese in Transition 291 Katsue Akiba Reynolds 23 Governed by the Rules? The Female Voice in Parliamentary Debates 300 Sylvia Shaw 24 "Doing Femininity" at Work: More than Just Relational Practice 315 Janet Holmes and Stephanie Schnurr 25 Communities of Practice at Work: Gender, Facework and the Power of Habitus at an All-Female Police Station and a Feminist Crisis Intervention Center in Brazil 332 Ana Cristina Ostermann 26 Trial Discourse and Judicial Decision-Making: Constraining the Boundaries of Gendered Identities 356 Susan Ehrlich Part VI Language, Gender, and Sexuality 371 27 Lesbian Bar Talk in Shinjuku, Tokyo 375 Hideko Abe 28 Boys' Talk: Hindi, Moustaches and Masculinity in New Delhi 384 Kira Hall 29 Queering Gay Men's English 401 William L. Leap 30 Indexing Polyphonous Identity in the Speech of African American Drag Queens 413 Rusty Barrett 31 Language and Sexuality in Spanish and English Dating Chats 430 Marisol del-Teso-Craviotto Part VII Theoretical Debates (1): Gender or Power? 447 32 "Women's Language" or "Powerless Language"? 451 William M. O'Barr and Bowman K. Atkins 33 Are "Powerless" Communication Strategies the Japanese Norm? 461 Patricia J. Wetzel 34 When the Doctor is a "Lady": Power, Status and Gender in Physician-Patient Encounters 468 Candace West Part VIII Theoretical Debates (2): Difference or Dominance? 483 35 A Cultural Approach to Male-Female Miscommunication 487 Daniel N. Maltz and Ruth A. Borker 36 Asymmetries: Women and Men Talking at Cross-Purposes 503 Deborah Tannen 37 Selling the Apolitical 518 Senta Troemel-Ploetz Part IX Theoretical Debates (3): When is Gender Relevant? 529 38 Whose Text? Whose Context? 533 Emanuel A. Schegloff 39 Gender Relevance in Talk-in-Interaction and Discourse 548 Ann Weatherall 40 Yes, But Is It Gender? 551 Joan Swann Part X New Directions in Language and Gender Research 569 41 Communities of Practice: Where Language, Gender, and Power All Live 573 Penelope Eckert and Sally McConnell-Ginet 42 Gender and Language Ideologies 583 Deborah Cameron 43 Social Constructionism, Postmodernism and Feminist Sociolinguistics 600 Janet Holmes Index 611

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