Making Meanings, Making Lives Gender, Sexuality, And Linguistic Practice

This volume offers a representative selection of Sally McConnell-Ginet's publications on language, gender and sexuality, which circle around the following themes: language users are actively engaged in making meanings, both as speakers and listeners; languages and socio-political institutions constrain, but do not determine, communicative possibilities; attention to language deepens understanding of gender and sexuality, including connections to ethnicity, class, race, and other dimensions of social identity and inequality.McConnell-Ginet, Sally is the author of 'Making Meanings, Making Lives Gender, Sexuality, And Linguistic Practice', published 2007 under ISBN 9780195187809 and ISBN 0195187806.