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Constituting Gender Through Talk in Childhood: Conversations in Parent-child, Peer, and Sibling Relationships: a Special Issue of research on Language

Constituting Gender Through Talk in Childhood: Conversations in Parent-child, Peer, and Sibling Relationships: a Special Issue of research on Language

Sheldon, Amy

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General Gender StudiesGeneral PsychologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0805899278
ISBN13: 9780805899276
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: Feb 1 1996
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This issue explores some of the ways in which gender, as a social construction, might be rooted in and contingent on conversational processes in childhood. The interconnections between language and gender in three key developmental sociolinguistic contexts are examined: talk between parent and child, talk among friends, and talk between siblings. When children learn to speak a language, they also learn to use it in ways that can reflect, resist, or ignore their culture's norms of acceptable feminine and masculine behavior. The authors of these articles explore the concept of talk as a medium in which both young children and the adults in their world do gender. This collection should act as a springboard for more thinking about ways to untangle gender and context, and to show their interconnectedness as well.

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