This is the inaugural volume of a new series, Studies
in Language and Gender. This substantial book is an edited
collection of recent research in the field of language
and gender, predominantly but not exclusively focused on
language use in the United States. The research represented
in its 20 chapters is wide-ranging, both in terms of the
genres and media explored in them and in terms of analytic
approaches. The genres, media, and locations investigated
include, among others, American shopping channel talk (Mary
Bucholtz), self-revelatory on-line journals (Laurel Sutton),
office interaction (Deborah Tannen), Latina hopscotch in
Los Angeles (Marjorie Goodwin), Irish-language community
radio (Colleen Cotter), British teenage girls' conversations
(Jennifer Coates), and a Tunisian sociolinguistic interview
(Keith Walters).