The Routledge Handbook of Language Gender and Sexuality

<p><b>S</b><b>hortlisted for BAAL (British Association for Applied Linguistics) Book Prize 2022</b></p><p><i>The Routledge Handbook of Language, Gender, and Sexuality</i> 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.</p><p>With a distinctive focus both on methodologies and theoretical frameworks, the <em>Handbook</em> 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.</p><p>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.</p>