"The second edition should certainly enhance the handbook's reputation as an invaluable teaching and learning resource."

Journal of Sociolinguistics, July 2015

"This is what a handbook should be: authoritative, inclusive, and accessible... this updated version includes summaries of some of the most important debates and concepts of recent years without becoming bogged down in them. I will definitely use this handbook as my first reference of choice when students and colleagues ask me where to start in this particular field."

Scott Kiesling, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Written by leading specialists in the field, The Handbook of Language, Gender, and Sexuality is a collection of articles examining the dynamic ways in which women and men develop and manage gendered identities through their talk. The Handbook has been updated extensively with a new introduction and chapters focusing on key themes and issues across historical periods, and methodologies and cutting-edge research topics in the field today. In-depth overviews explore the study of language and gender worldwide, and the collection features data and case studies from interactions across a range of social contexts and communities. This comprehensive resource provides a state-of-the-art overview of language and gender for established scholars and an essential introduction to the field for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in a wide range of disciplines.

Susan Ehrlich is Professor of Linguistics at York University, Toronto, Canada. She is the author of Representing Rape: Language and Sexual Consent (2001), and co-editor of "Why Do You Ask?" The Function of Questions in Institutional Discourse (with Alice Freed, 2010) and Discursive Constructions of Consent in the Legal Process (with Diana Eades and Janet Ainsworth, 2016).

Miriam Meyerhoff is Professor of Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She is co-editor of Social Lives in Language: Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities (with Naomi Nagy, 2008), Doing Sociolinguistics (with Erik Schleef and Laurel Mackenzie, 2015), Bequia Talk (with James A. Walker, 2013), The Sociolinguistics Reader (with Erik Schleef, 2010) and is the author of Introducing Sociolinguistics, Second Edition (2011).

Janet Holmes is Emeritus Professor in Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand and Associate Director of the Wellington Language in the Workplace project. She is the author of Gendered Talk at Work (Blackwell, 2006), An Introduction to Sociolinguistics, fourth edition (Pearson, 2013) and co-editor (with Kirk Hazen) of Research Methods in Sociolinguistics (Wiley Blackwell, 2014).