Table Of ContentThe Routledge Handbook of
Language, Gender, and Sexuality
The Routledge Handbook of Language, Gender, and Sexuality provides an accessible and
authoritative overview of this dynamic and growing area of research. Covering cutting-
edge debates in eight parts, it is designed as a series of mini edited collections, enabling the
reader, and particularly the novice reader, to discover new ways of approaching language,
gender, and sexuality.
With a distinctive focus both on methodologies and theoretical frameworks, the Handbook
includes 40 state-of-the-art chapters from international authorities. Each chapter provides a
concise and critical discussion of a methodological approach, an empirical study to model
the approach, a discussion of real-world applications, and further reading. Each section also
contains a chapter by leading scholars in that area, positioning, through their own work and
chapters in their part, current state-of-the-art and future directions.
This volume is key reading for all engaged in the study and research of language,
gender, and sexuality within English language, sociolinguistics, discourse studies, applied
linguistics, and gender studies.
Jo Angouri is Professor and the University-level Academic Director for Education and
Internationalisation at the University of Warwick, UK, and Visiting Distinguished Professor
at Aalto University, School of Business, Finland. She is author of Culture, Discourse, and
the Workplace. Jo’s research areas include leadership and teamwork in high-pressure, high-
risk professional settings; language, politics, and ideology; and migration, mobility, and
multilingualism.
Judith Baxter was Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics at Aston University, UK.
Her areas of research specialism include gender and language, discourse of leadership, and
feminist poststructuralist discourse analysis. She has written numerous journal articles on
these topics as well as four acclaimed monographs.
Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics
Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics provide comprehensive overviews of the key
topics in applied linguistics. All entries for the handbooks are specially commissioned and
written by leading scholars in the field. Clear, accessible and carefully edited Routledge
Handbooks in Applied Linguistics are the ideal resource for both advanced undergradu-
ates and postgraduate students.
The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in Applied Linguistics
Edited by Jim McKinley and Heath Rose
The Routledge Handbook of Language Education Curriculum Design
Edited by Peter Mickan and Ilona Wallace
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Intercultural Communication
Second Edition
Edited by Jane Jackson
The Routledge Handbook of Forensic Linguistics
Second Edition
Edited by Malcolm Coulthard, Alison May and Rui Sousa-Silva
The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Approaches to Discourse Analysis
Edited by Eric Friginal and Jack A. Hardy
The Routledge Handbook of World Englishes
Second Edition
Edited by Andy Kirkpatrick
The Routledge Handbook of Language, Gender, and Sexuality
Edited by Jo Angouri and Judith Baxter
For a full list of titles in this series, please visit www .routledge. com/ series/ RHAL
The Routledge
Handbook of Language,
Gender, and Sexuality
Edited by Jo Angouri and Judith Baxter
First published 2021
by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN
and by Routledge
52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017
Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business
© 2021 selection and editorial matter, Jo Angouri and Judith Baxter; individual
chapters, the contributors
The right of Jo Angouri and Judith Baxter to be identified as the authors of the
editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been
asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and
Patents Act 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or
utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now
known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any
information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the
publishers.
Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered
trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent
to infringe.
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Angouri, Jo, editor. | Baxter, Judith, 1955- editor.
Title: The Routledge handbook of language, gender, and sexuality /
edited by Jo Angouri and Judith Baxter.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2021. |
Series: Routledge handbooks in applied linguistics | Includes bibliographical
references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020047347 | ISBN 9781138200265 (hardback) |
ISBN 9781315514857 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Language and sex. | Language and languages–Sex
differences.
Classification: LCC P120.S48 R68 2021 | DDC 306.44–dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020047347
ISBN: 978-1-138-20026-5 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-367-74683-4 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-3155-1485-7 (ebk)
Typeset in Times New Roman
by Deanta Global Publishing Services, Chennai, India
To Judith
Contents
List of figures xii
List of tables xiv
List of contributors xvi
Acknowledgements xxiv
Foreword xxv
1 Introduction: language, gender, and sexuality: sketching out the field 1
Jo Angouri
PART I
Variationist approaches 23
2 Non-binary approaches to gender and sexuality 25
Penelope Eckert and Robert J. Podesva (Part I leads)
3 Sexuality as non-binary: a variationist perspective 37
Erez Levon
4 Perception of gender and sexuality 52
Kathryn Campbell-Kibler and deandre miles-hercules
5 Gender diversity and the voice 69
Lal Zimman
PART II
Anthropological and ethnographic approaches 91
6 Ethnography and the shifting semiotics of gender and sexuality 93
Kira Hall and Jenny L. Davis (Part II leads)
7 Gender, language, and elite ethnographies in UK political institutions 108
Sylvia Shaw
vii
Contents
8 ‘Gay, aren’t they?’ An ethnographic approach to
compulsory heterosexuality 121
Jodie Clark
9 Anthropological discourse analysis and the social ordering of
gender ideology 136
Susan U. Philips
10 Using communities of practice and ethnography to answer
sociolinguistic questions 150
Ila Nagar
11 Digital ethnography in the study of language, gender, and sexuality 164
Piia Varis
PART III
Interactional sociolinguistic approaches 179
12 Interactional sociolinguistics: foundations, developments, and
applications to language, gender, and sexuality 181
Cynthia Gordon and Deborah Tannen (Part III leads)
13 Leadership and humour at work: using interactional sociolinguistics to
explore the role of gender 197
Stephanie Schnurr and Nor Azikin Mohd Omar
14 More than builders in pink shirts: identity construction
in gendered workplaces 212
Jo Angouri, Meredith Marra, and Shelley Dawson
15 Interactional sociolinguistics in language and sexuality research:
benefits and challenges 226
Corinne A. Seals
PART IV
Ethnomethodological and conversation analytic approaches 241
16 The accomplishment of gender in interaction: ethnomethodological and
conversation analytic approaches to gender 243
Lorenza Mondada (Part IV lead)
17 Feminist conversation analysis: examining violence against women 258
Emma Tennent and Ann Weatherall
viii
Contents
18 Performance in action: walking as gendered construction practice in
drag king workshops 272
Luca Greco
19 Gender and sexuality normativities: using conversation analysis to
investigate heteronormativity and cisnormativity in interaction 289
Stina Ericsson
20 Examining girls’ peer culture-in-action: gender, stance, and category
work in girls’ peer language practices 304
Ann-Carita Evaldsson
PART V
Sociocultural and critical approaches 321
21 Language, gender, and sexuality: reflections on the field’s ongoing
critical engagement with the sociopolitical landscape 323
Lia Litosseliti (Part V lead)
22 Applying queer theory to language, gender, and sexuality research in schools 339
Helen Sauntson
23 Text trajectories and gendered inequalities in institutions 354
Susan Ehrlich and Tanya Romaniuk
24 ‘I thought you didn’t accept gay marriage Fr’: combining corpus
linguistics and critical discourse analysis to investigate the
representation of gay marriage and the Irish Mammy stereotype
in Mrs Brown’s Boys 368
Bróna Murphy and María Palma-Fahey
25 The impact of language and gender studies: public engagement and
wider communication 382
Deborah Cameron
PART VI
Poststructuralist approaches 397
26 Poststructuralist research on language, gender, and sexuality 399
Bonny Norton (Part VI lead)
27 Analysing gendered discourses online: child-centric motherhood and
individuality in Mumsnet Talk 408
Jai Mackenzie
ix
