Publications

Publication details [#32319]

Trix, Frances and Carolyn Psenka. 2003. Exploring the color of glass: letters of recommendation for female and male medical faculty. Discourse & Society : 191–220.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse analysis | gender | letter | psychology | recommending

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

ISBN

0957-9265

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This study analyzes over 300 recommendation letters for medical faculty at a large American medical school in the mid-1990s, using methods from corpus and discourse analysis, and the theoretical perspective of gender schema from cognitive psychology.