The new edition of Language and Gender: A Reader responds to the explosion of research that has shaped the field since its initial publication in 1998. Retaining many of the foundational entries that have made the volume so popular, the second edition has been fully revised, and now includes 23 new articles and two entirely new sections. The new edition of Language and Gender: A Reader responds to the wealth of research that has shaped the field since its initial publication in 1998. Retaining many of the foundational entries that have made the volume so popular, the second edition has been fully revised, and now includes 23 new articles and two entirely new sections. Part 1: Gender differences in pronunciation and grammar. 1. John Bradley `Yanyuwa: `Men speak one way, women speak another 2. Peter Trudgill `Sex and covert prestige . 3. Jenny Cheshire `Linguistic variation and social function . 4.Edina Eisikovits `Girl talk/boy talk: sex differences in adolescent speech . 5.Patricia Nichols `Black women in the rural south: conservative and innovative . 6.Penelope Eckert `Gender and sociolinguistic variation . Part 2: ender and conversational practice. 7.Janet Holmes Complimenting a positive politeness strategy . 8.Marjorie Goodwin `Cooperation and Competition across girls play activities . 9.Julia Davies `Expressions of gender: an analysis of pupils gendered discourse styles in small group classroom discussions . 10. Carole Waseleski `Gender and the use of exclamation points in computer mediated communication: An analysis of exclamations postedto two electronic discussion lists . Part 3:Power and dominance in mixed talk. 11.Candace West & Don H. Zimmerman `Women s place in everyday talk: reflections on parent child interaction 12.Victoria DeFrancisco `The sounds of silence: how men silence women in marital relations . 13.Joan Swann `Talk control: an illustration from the classroom of problems in analysing male dominance in conversation . 14.Susan Herring et al. `Participation in electronic discourse in a feminist field 15.Jie Yang `Zuiqian Üdeficient mouth : discourse, gender and domestic violence in urban China . Part 4:Same sex talk. 16.Jennifer Coates `Gossip revisited: language in all female groups 17.Mary Bucholtz `Why be normal? Language and identity practices in a community of nerd girls. 18.Pia Pichler `Hybrid or In Between cultures: traditions of marriage in a group of British Bangladeshi girls . 19.Deborah Cameron `Performing gender identity: young men s talk and the construction of heterosexual masculinity . 20. Jennifer Coates `Pushing at the boundaries: the expression of alternative masculinities . 21. Scott Kiesling `Playing the straight man: displaying and maintaining male heterosexuality in discourse , Part 5:Gendered talk in the public domain. 22. Katsue Akiba Reynolds `Female speakers of Japanese in transition 23. Sylvia Shaw `Governing by the rules? The female voice in parliamentary debates . 24. Holmes, Janet & Schnurr, Stephanie `Doing femininity at work: more than just relational practice . 25. Ana Cristina Ostermann `Communities of practice at work: gender, facework and the power of habitus at an all female police station and a feminist crisis interventions centre in Brazil . 26. Susan Ehrlich `Trial discourse and judicial decision making: constraining the boundaries of gendered identities . Part 6:Language, gender and sexuality. 27.Hideko Abe `Lesbian bar talk in Shinjuku, Tokyo . 28.Kira Hall `Boys talk: Hindi, moustaches, and masculinity in New Delhi . 29.William L Leap `Queering gay men s English . 30.Rusty Barratt `Indexing polyphonous identity in the speech of African American drag queens . 31.Marisol Del Teso Craviotto `Language and sexuality in English and Spanish dating chats . Part 7:Theoretical debates (1): Gender or power? 32. William O Barr & Bowman Atkins `Women s language or `powerless language ? 33.Patricia J. Wetzel `Are powerless communication strategies the Japanese norm? 34.Candace West `When the doctor is a lady: power, status and gender in physician patient encounters . Part 8:Theoretical debates (2): Difference or dominance? 35.Daniel Maltz & Ruth Borker `A cultural approach to male female communication . 36. Deborah Tannen `Asymmetries: women and men talking at cross purposes . 37. Senta Troemel Ploetz `Selling the apolitical . Part 9:Theoretical debates (3): When is gender relevant? 38.Emanuel Schegloff `Whose text, whose context? . 39.Ann Weatherall `Gender relevance in talk in interaction and discourse . 40.Joan Swann `Yes, but is it gender? . Part 10:New directions in language and gender research 41.Penelope Eckert & Sally McConnell Ginet `Communities of practice: where language, gender and power all live . 42.Deborah Cameron `Gender and language ideologies . 43. Janet Holmes `Social constructionism, postmodernism and feminist sociolinguistics .