Locating Power: Proceedings of the Second Berkeley Women and Language Conference

Table of Contents: Page Numbers

Karen L. Adams

Accruing power on debate floors: 1-10

Mira Ariel and Rachel Giora

Gender versus group-relations analysis of impositive speech acts: 11-22

Arnetha F. Ball

The discourse of power and solidarity: Language features of African American females and a male program leader in a neighborhood-based youth dance program: 23-35

Susan Schick Case

Organizational inequity in a steel plant: A language model: 36-48

Marisa Castellano

The ultimate gatekeeper: Sexual harassment in a job training program: 49-56

Grace P. Chan

Gender, roles, and power in dyadic conversations: 57-67

Jenny Cook-Gumperz

Gendered talk and gendered lives: Little girls being women before becoming (big) girls: 68-79

Colette G. Craig

Miss Nora, rescuer of the Rama language: A story of power and empowerment: 80-88

Penelope Eckert and Sally McConnell-Ginet

Communities of practice: Where language, gender, and power all live: 89-99

Susan Erlich and Ruth King

Feminist meanings and sexist speech communities: 100-107

Susuan Erivin-Tripp and Martin Lampert

Gender differences in the construction of humorous talk: 108-117

Genevieve Escure

Gender and linguistic change in the Belizean Creole community: 118-131

Michele Foster

"Are you with me?": Power, solidarity, and community in the discourse of African American women: 132-143

Alice F. Freed

We understand perfectly: A critique of Tannen's view of cross-sex communication: 144-152

Susan Gal

Language, gender, and power: An anthropological view: 153-161

D. Letticia Galindo and Maria Dolores Gonzales Velasquez

A sociolinguistic description of linguistic self-expression, innovation, and power among Chicanas in Texas and New Mexico: 162-170

Tara Goldstein

Language choice and women learners of English as a Second Language: 171-181

Marjorie Harness Goodwin

Orchestrating participation in events: Powerful talk among African American girls: 182-196

Alice Greenwood and Alice F. Freed

Women talking to women: The function of questions in conversation: 197-206

Kira Hall

Women's language for sale on the fantasy lines: 207-222

Kira Hall and Beth Daniels

"It's rather like embracing a textbook": The linguistic representation of the female psychoanalyst in American film: 223-239

Heide E. Hamilton

Bringing aging into the language/gender equation: 240-249

Susan Herring, Deborah Johnson, and Tamra DiBenedetto

Participation in electronic discourse in a "feminist" field: 250-262

Leanne Hinton

Sex differences in address terminology in the 1990s: 263-271

Cathryn Houghton

"Talking it out" or talking it in: An ethnography of power and language in psychotherapeutic practice: 272-285

Deborah James and Sandra Clarke

Interruptions, gender and power: A review of the literature: 286:299

Alexandre Kimenyi

Why is it that women in Rwanda cannot marry?: 300-311

H. Merle Knight

Gender interference in transsexuals' speech: 312-317

Elisabeth D. Kuhn

Playing down authority and still getting things done: Women professors get help from the institution: 318-325

Amy Kyratzis

Gender differences in the use of persuasive justification in children's pretend play: 326-337

Marianne LaFrance

When agents disappear: How gender affects the implicit causality of interpersonal verbs: 338-343

Robin Tolmach Lakoff

The silencing of women: 344-355

Holly Bea Liske

The status of the sexes: A view through language: 356-361

Anne Machunge

The politics of subordination: Linguistic discourse in organizational hierarchies: 362-370

Jacqueline J. Madhok

Effect of gender composition on group interaction: 371-385

Bonnie McElhinny

"I don't smile much anymore": Affect, gender, and the discourse of Pittsburgh police officers: 386-403

Norma Catalina Mendoza-Denton

Variation in gap length and the Anita hill/Clarence Thomas cross-examination discourse: 404-408

Miriam Meyerhoff

"We've all got to go one day, eh?": Powerlessness and solidarity in the functions of a New Zealand tag: 409-419

Birch Moonwomon

Rape, race, and responsibility: A graffiti-text political discourse: 420-429

Melanie Morton

Camille Paglia and the antifeminist backlash: Assessing discursive strategies: 430-440

Nancy Anne Niedzielski

The masculine pronouns as generic: A view from the child: 441-446

Elinor Ochs and Carolyn Taylor

Mothers' role in the everyday reconstruction of "Father knows best": 447-462

Peg O'Connor

Clarence Thomas and the survival of sexual harassment: 463-468

Yumiko Ohara

Gender-dependent pitch levels: A comparative study in Japanese and English: 469-477

Shigeko Okamato and Shie Sato

Less feminine speech among young Japanese females: 478-488

Jeong-Woon Park

A recent development in caki, a second-person pronoun in Korean: 489-500

G. Genevieve Patthry-Chavez and Madeleine Youmans

The social construction of sexual realities in heterosexual women's and men's erotic texts: 501-514

Deborah Schiffrin

Gender displays among family and friends: Taking the role of another: 515-527

Amy Sheldon

Preschool girls' discourse competence: Managing conflict: 528-539

Janet S. (Shibamoto) Smith

Linguistic privilege: "Just stating facts" in Japanese: 540-548

Dale Spender

Information management: Women's language strengths: 549-559

Laurel A. Sutton

Bitches and skankly hobags: The place of women in contemporary slang: 560-572

Mary Talbot

A synthetic sisterhood: False friends in a teenage magazine: 573-580

Senta Troemel-Ploetz

The construction of conversational equality by women: 581-589

Karen Woodman

The Goddess and the sea people: On the origins of the languages of the Minoan scripts: 590-600

Hong Zhang

"Spare women a beating for three days, they will stand on the roof and tear the house apart": Images of women in Chinese proverbs: 600-609