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Aneta Pavlenko, Adrian Blackledge, Ingrid Piller, and Marya Teutsch-Dwyer (eds.). Multilingualism, second language learning, and gender. Boston & New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2001. Pp. 350. Hb $79.95, Pb $29.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 February 2004

Begoña Echeverria
Affiliation:
Graduate School of Education, University of California, Riverside, [email protected]

Extract

This book uses a feminist, poststructuralist perspective to examine the relationships among gender, second language acquisition and multilingualism. It is a welcome addition to the study of these topics, which are usually examined separately. Gender is rarely considered in research on second language acquisition, and most studies of language and gender are conducted in monolingual contexts. This volume proposes a new interdisciplinary approach to these issues which “strives to theorize and to investigate the role of language in the production of gender relations, and role of gender dynamics in language learning and use” (p. 22).

Type
BOOK REVIEW
Copyright
© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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