num_pages: 120
description: This book deals with the use of language to actively create difference and inequality between men and women. Stressing the necessity of looking beyond "sexist" words for an understanding of how language creates difference, Poynton pays particular attention to grammatical and textual structurein both speech and writing. She contends that girls and boys become different kinds of people in the process of learning to use language differently in achieving different kinds of social goals.
language: English
title: Language and Gender: Making the Difference
titlecomplete: Language and Gender: Making the Difference (Language Education)
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Oxford University Press