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Publication details [#14897]

Bergvall, Victoria L. 1999. Toward a comprehensive theory of language and gender. Language in Society 28 (2) : 273–293.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

community of practice | dominance | gender | ideology | innateness

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

An evaluation of the community of practice approach to research on gendered language. It is argued that the community of practice approach fails to account for ideology and innateness in the study of language and gender.