Chapter-Related Readings

Differences in grammatical patterns and strategies of men and women.

Baron, D.. (1986). Grammar and Gender. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Up-to-date text on language and communication in cultural context.

Bonvillain, N.. (2000). Language, Culture, and Communication: The Meaning of Messages, 3rd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Downes, W.. (1998). Language and Society, 2nd ed. New York: Cambridge University Press.

How speech correlates with high school social networks and cliques.

Eckert, P.. (2000). Linguistic Variation as Social Practice: The Linguistic Construction of Identity in Belten High. Malden, MA: Blackwell.

Language, society, and culture.

Foley, W. A.. (1997). Anthroplogical Linguistics: An Introduction. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers.

A teacher of Washoe, Lucy, and other signing chimps tells what he’s learned from them.

Fouts, R.. (1997). Next of Kin: What Chimpanzees Have Taught Me about Who We Are. New York: William Morrow.

Thorough examination of political uses of speech and oratory and the manipulation of language in power relations.

Geis, M. L.. (1987). The Language of Politics. New York: Springer-Verlag.

Essays on thought and thinking, language and culture.

Gumperz, J., and S. C. Levinson, eds.. (1996). Rethinking Linguistic Relativity. New York: Cambridge University Press.

The nature and role of language in communication and society.

Hanks, W. F.. (1996). Language and Communicative Practices. Boulder, CO: Westview.

Influential nontechnical discussion of how women use and are treated in Standard American English.

Lakoff, R.. (1975). Language and Woman’s Place. New York: Harper & Row.

Politics and language in the United States today.

Lakoff, R.. (2000). The Language War. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Recent text with up-to-date examples.

Fasold, R. W.. (1990). The Sociolinguistics of Language. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

An introduction to BEV and its social significance.

Rickford, J. R.. (1999). African American Vernacular English: Features, Evolution, Educational Implications. Malden, MA: Blackwell.

Readable account of the history and social meaning of BEV.

Rickford, J. R., and R. J. Rickford. (2000). Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English. New York: John Wiley & Sons.

Gender and language.

Romaine, S.. (1999). Communicating Gender. Mahwah, NJ: L. Erlbaum Associates.

An introduction to sociolinguistics.

Romaine, S.. (2000). Language in Society: An Introduction to Sociolinguistics, 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press.

The function of language in culture and society.

Salzmann, Z.. (1998). Language, Culture, and Society: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology, 2nd ed. Boulder, CO: Westview.

Popular book on gender differences in speech and conversational styles.

Tannen, D.. (1990). You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation. New York: Ballantine.

Twelve papers about conversational interaction illustrate the complexity of the relation between gender and language use.

Tannen, D., ed.. (1993). Gender and Conversational Interaction. New York: Oxford University Press.

Political dimensions and use of language.

Thomas, L.. (1999). Language, Society and Power. New York: Routledge.

Readable short introduction to the role and use of language in society.

Trudgill, P.. (1995). Sociolinguistics: An Introduction to Language and Society, 3rd rev. ed.. New York: Penguin.

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