Publications

Publication details [#51655]

Beck, Rose Marie. 2009. Gender, innovation and ambiguity: speech prohibitions as a resource for ‘space to move’. Discourse & Society 20 (5) : 531–553.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

ambiguity | innovation | language and culture | social change | women's language

Language as a subject

Herero | Swahili

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This article deals with the ambiguous space between norm and sanction in African women’s (in casu Swahili and Herero) interactional practices, that enables the negotiation of socially and culturally apt gendered behaviour and innovation.