Event overview
Professor Jennifer Coates "The Rise and Fall of Mars and Venus in Language and Gender Research" as part of the Richard Hoggart Lecture Series
Jennifer Coates is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Roehampton University. Her published work includes Women, Men and Language (originally published 1986, 2nd edition 1993), Women in their Speech Communities (1989) (co-edited with Deborah Cameron); Women Talk. Conversation Between Women Friends (1996), and Language and Gender: A Reader (1998) as well as many chapters in edited books and articles in refereed journals. She has just completed a book on men, masculinity and narrative, entitled Men Talk, to be published later this year. Her current research interests include the construction of gender through talk, language and sexuality, conversational narrative, and turn-taking patterns in conversation. She has given lectures on her research all over the world, in Australia, New Zealand, the USA, Germany, Italy, Denmark and Switzerland. She is Editor of the Blackwell sociolinguistic series 'Language and Social Change' and Senior Editor of the Longman 'Real Language' series. She is on the editorial board of the Journal of Sociolinguistics and of Language and Discourse, as well as being a member of the editorial board of the John Benjamins series 'Studies in Narrative'. She has recently been made a Fellow of the English Association.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 1 Dec 2009 | 6:15pm - 8:00pm |
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