Volume Overview

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.