Scott F. Kiesling is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

List of figures

Acknowledgments

Notation and transcription

1 More than talking difference

2 Studying Language

3 What are gender and sexuality, Part 1: A short introduction to a very big topic

4 Gender and Sexuality Part 2: Expanding the concepts

5 How we got here Part 1: A brief history of the study of language, gender, and sexuality

6 How we got here Part 2: New Millenium Theorizing

7 Gendered Grammar

8 Gender Categories beyond Grammar

9 Doing Gender in Interaction

10 Creating gendered and sexed relationships in interaction

11 Language Norms as Gender Norms

12 New ways of seeing gendered norms in variation

13 Putting it all together

Index

Language, Gender, and Sexuality offers a panoramic and accessible introduction to the ways in which linguistic patterns are sensitive to social categories of gender and sexuality, as well as an overview of how speakers use language to create and display gender and sexuality.