Gender and Belief Systems:
Proceedings
of the Fourth Berkeley Women and Language Conference
The Fourth Berkeley Women and Language Conference was held
April 19-21st, 1996 at the Berkeley Conference Center, Berkeley,
California
Proceedings were edited by Natasha Warner, Jocelyn Ahlers, Leela Bilmes,
Monica Oliver, Suzanne Wertheim, and Mel Chen.
The topic of the Fourth Berkeley Women and Language Conference was
Gender
and Belief Systems. This includes such issues as expression of
spirituality;
how language reflects beliefs about gender; beliefs about the language
of particular groups; and the interaction of language and gender with
religions,
political, social, cultural or intellectual systems.
Beliefs of many
types are often taken for granted both in studies of language structure
and in those of gender. Belief commonly serves as a starting point, but
is not investigated in its own right. This topic encourages works
exploring
the foundations of ideological/epistemological constructs.
Table of Contents
- EILEEN P. ANDERSON
- "You think...I think": Toward an understanding of girls' psychological
conflicts using a voice-centered relational method of interview analysis
- VICTORIA L. BERGVALL
- Divided minds: Gender polarization in brain and language research
- MONIQUE BIEMANS & RENÉE VAN BEZOOIJEN
-
The effect of masculinity and femininity on pitch
- LEELA BILMES
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Gender differences in Thai near-death narratives
- JANET M. BING
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Discovering hidden values: A frame analysis of teaching evaluations
- RENÉE BLAKE & SIGRID MÜLLER
-
The coming of the third industrial revolution:
Will women again be relegated to service positions?
- LISA BLAND
-
The humorous side of butch and femme
- DIANA BOXER & ANDREA TYLER
-
A cross-linguistic view of harassment
- JILL BRODY
-
Competition as cooperation: Tojolab'al women's barter
- ALYSA BROWN
-
Genderlects on the tennis courts:
An analysis of female athletes' linguistic behaviors
- MARY BUCHOLTZ
-
Geek the girl: Language, femininity, and female nerds
- MARISA CASTELLANO
-
Building community across different belief systems:
An ethnographically informed perspective on the role of narrative and
dialogue
- MELINDA YUEN-CHING CHEN
-
Conceptualization of homosexuality: A group-based view
- JENNIFER CURTIS
-
"He sorta raped her": Hedging and re-education for batterers
- JILL DOWDY & DEBORAH KELLER-COHEN
-
Signifying in African American women's confession magazines
- PENELOPE ECKERT
-
Vowels and nail polish: The emergence of linguistic style
in the preadolescent heterosexual marketplace
- SUSAN EHRLICH & SUSAN LEVESQUE
-
Discursive practices, point of view and the representation of sexual
harassment
- SUZANNE FLEISCHMAN
-
Writing a woman's profession: Women's relation to the scientific voice
- GLENN FRANKENFIELD
-
Gender difference and phonological selection
- ALICE F. FREED
-
The language of pregnancy: Women and medical experiences
- HIROKO FURO
-
Linguistic conflict of Japanese women: Is that a request or an order?
- RUDOLF P. GAUDIO
-
Funny Muslims: Humor, faith, and gender liminality in Hausa
- DEBORAH GÜNZBURGER
-
Gender adaptation in the speech of transsexuals:
From sex transition to gender transmission?
- KIRA HALL
-
Lexical subversion in the hijra community
- JENNIFER HAY
-
Problems and paradoxes of language and gender research
- CAITLIN HINES
-
She-wolves, tigresses, and morphosemantics
- JANET HOLMES
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Women's role in language change: A place for quantification
- LANITA JACOBS-HUEY
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Negotiating social identity in an African American beauty salon
- DEBORAH JAMES
-
Derogatory terms for women and men: A new look
- CHERYL JOHNSON
-
Race, gender, and belief: The case of the O.J. Simpson defense
- SCOTT FABIUS KIESLING
-
Cultural models and alignment roles in fraternity men's discourse
- AMY KYRATZIS, DONNA TROUSDALE & MARDI KIDWELL
- Gender and science: Epistemic stances in girls' and boys' scientific
discourse
- ROBIN TOLMACH LAKOFF
-
The (rise and fall and)n of Hillary Rodham Clinton
- ELAINE J. LAWLESS
-
Images of God in Christian women's sermons: Finding God
- WILLIAM LEAP
-
Fruit Loops and naughty places: How the language of gay city
reflects the politics of urban gay experience
- A.C. LIANG
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The Dharma Talk as a therapeutic discourse
- ANNA LIVIA
-
Fear of sewers: Who sees this? Who thinks this? Who says this?
- JONATHAN D. LOFTIN
-
"Women's knowledge" and language choice at the
Fourth Cultural Congress in Otavalo, Ecuador
- YOSHIKO MATSUMOTO
-
Does less feminine speech in Japanese mean less femininity?
- BONNIE MCELHINNY
-
Strategic essentialism in sociolinguistic studies of gender
- JANET S. MCINTOSH
-
Professed disbelief and gender identity on the Kenya coast
- DEIRDRE H. MCMAHON
-
"Her greatest wish fulfilled": Motherhood in medical texts
- JOHN MCWHORTER
-
Bringing gender into creole studies
- MIRIAM MEYERHOFF
-
My place or yours: Constructing intergroup boundaries in Bislama
- ELAINE K. MILLER
-
Engendering Hillary: Editorial cartoon frame-ups
- YOSHIMI MIYAKE
-
Women and the deferential particle o in Japanese
- GABRIELLA MODAN
-
Roving hookers and homebody johns: Images of stability,
movement, and otherness in the reporting of prostitution arrests
- JENNIFER MONAHAN
-
The language of préciosité: Stereotypes of women's language writ large?
- BIRCH MOONWOMON-BAIRD
-
Lesbian conversation as a site for ideological identity construction
- SHIGEKO OKAMOTO
-
Representations of diverse female speech styles in Japanese popular
culture
- ESRA G. ÖZYÜREK
-
Feeling tells better than language: Emotional expression and
gender hierarchy in the sermons of a Turkish Islamic leader
- DON PETERKIN
-
Prostitutes and primitives: Blamed, framed
and blended in "African AIDS" discourse
- PIA PURRA
-
"None of the boys aroused anything special in me":
Transitivity as a linguistic belief system
- KATHLEEN C. RILEY
-
Engendering miscommunication in the Marquesas, French Polynesia
- SUZANNE ROMAINE
-
Why women are supposed to talk like ladies: The glamour of grammar
- FILOMENA SANDALO
-
Gender and social class in Kadiwéu phonology
- UMA SHRESTHA
-
You have got to have a son!
- MERYL SIEGAL & SHIGEKO OKAMOTO
-
Imagined worlds: Language, gender and socio-cultural
"norms" in Japanese language textbooks
- BETH LEE SIMON
-
Gender, language, and literacy in Banaras, India
- DEIRDRE SNYDER
-
"The cause of all the mirages": The twisting of
tropes in Delmira Agustini's "Visión"
- ELIZABETH A. STRAND
-
Gender beliefs and expectations affect fricative perception
- LISA M. STULBERG
-
Let's talk about sex: The negotiation of discourse and the critical
potential of classroom talk in a sex education classroom
- LIISA TAINIO
-
Gendered everyday myths in a Finnish conversation:
Stories about a first visit to the home of prospective in-laws
- SARA TRECHTER
-
The intersection of grammar, metalinguistic knowledge
and ideology in Lakota gendered speech
- RENÉE VAN BEZOOIJEN
-
The effect of pitch on the attribution of gender-related personality
traits
- KATHRYN A. WOOLARD
-
Language and gender in urban Catalonia
Papers from the Panel "A retrospective on progress in the field since
the
1983 publication of Language, gender, and society"
- NANCY M. HENLEY
- Comments
- CHERIS KRAMARAE
- Strengths/successes and snags/nags
- SALLY MCCONNELL-GINET
- Language, gender, and society: Personal reflections on its ancestry
and its offspring
- BARRIE THORNE
- How has feminism changed the study of language? Looking across the
disciplines
Presented at the 1994 Berkeley Women and Language Conference
- BONNIE MCELHINNY
- "I teach talk only, not language": Writing the scholarship
of Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi into histories of eighteenth century
linguistics
Also presented at conference but not included in these
proceedings:
- NIKO BESNIER
- Talking on the margin and negotiating identity in Tonga, South
Pacific
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