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Resisting Essentialism in Quantitative Language, Gender and Identity Research: Counting Us in

Resisting Essentialism in Quantitative Language, Gender and Identity Research: Counting Us in

Edmondson, Daniel
Shaw-Hawkins, Ryan
Cuddy, Salina

Hardcover

Series: Palgrave Studies in Language, Gender and Sexuality

LinguisticsGeneral Gender Studies

PREORDER - Expected ship date February 16, 2027

ISBN10: 303242674X
ISBN13: 9783032426741
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Feb 16 2027
Language: English

This book draws on four case studies of quantitative linguistic research methodologies - psycholinguistic, production sociophonetic, perception sociophonetic and corpus linguistic - to address the theoretical and methodological question of how to handle the problems of essentialism without abandoning quantitative approaches entirely. Quantitative research into language, gender, and identity risks assuming an essentialist position towards identity, insofar as identities are positioned in neat categories that might show some form of inter-group difference. However, post-structuralist philosophy highlights how identity is neither static nor easily categorizable, and there is therefore sometimes a disconnect between the philosophical positioning that language, gender, and identity scholars can - and ideally, should - take, and the methodological affordances of quantitative research methodologies. The main audience for this work will be academics and students in language, gender, and identity studies, as well as others interested in quantitative research on these topics.

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