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ISBN 13: 9781349307906
Author: J Charteris Black, C Seale

An investigation of the influence of gender, social class, age and illness type in the language of people talking about their experiences of illness. It shows evidence of both conformity with and resistance to gender stereotypes.

Gender and the Language of Illness 1st Table of contents:

1 Gender and the Language of Illness
1.1 Introduction – sex, gender and identity
1.2 Difference: Sex, sex roles and comparison
1.2.1 Introduction
1.2.2 Sex
1.2.3 Sex roles
1.2.4 Comparison of sex and sex roles
1.3 Gender as performance
1.3.1 Introduction
1.3.2 Communities of practice
1.3.3 Discourse
1.4 Illness, language and social variables
1.4.1 Illness and language
1.4.2 Illness and gender
1.4.3 Language and age
1.4.4 Language and social class
1.5 Summary
2 Methods for Investigating Gender and Language
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Variationist sociolinguistics
2.3 Corpus-based research
2.4 Concepts related to corpus research
2.4.1 Keywords
2.4.2 Key concepts
2.4.3 Keywords and key concepts compared
2.5 Deriving discourses from keywords and key concepts
2.6 Corpus and sub-corpora
2.6.1 The full matched sample
2.6.2 The social class (SEC) matched sample
2.6.3 The age matched sample
2.6.4 The specific illness sample
2.7 Summary
3 Men’s Traditional Discourse of Illness: Distancing and Avoidance
3.1 Introduction: Men and discourses of illness
3.2 Linguistic strategy: Reification
3.3 Linguistic strategy: Deictic distancing
3.4 Linguistic strategy: Distancing through abstractions
3.4.1 Introduction
3.4.2 ‘Solution/s’
3.4.3 ‘System/s’
3.4.4 ‘Pattern/s’ and ‘technique/s’
3.5 Discursive style: Avoidance through sports talk
3.6 Discursive style: Swearing
3.7 Summary
4 A Feminine Discourse of Illness: Transformation and Modality
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Feminine discourse of illness
4.2.1 Overview
4.2.2 Verb analysis
4.3 Feminine discursive style: Low modality
4.3.1 Analysis of mental process verb (cognitive): ‘Think/Thought’
4.3.2 Analysis of mental process verb (cognitive): ‘Mean’
4.3.3 Analysis of mental process verb (cognitive): ‘Imagine’
4.3.4 Analysis of mental process verb (cognitive): ‘Know’
4.4 Feminine discursive style: High modality
4.4.1 Analysis of mental process verb (cognitive): ‘Knew’
4.4.2 Analysis of mental process verb (affective): ‘Need’
4.4.3 Analysis of mental process verb (affective): ‘Want’
4.5 Summary
5 Emotional Disclosure: Socio-economic Classification, Age and Gender
5.1 Introduction: Gender and emotion
5.2 Socio-economic classification (SEC)
5.2.1 Overview – Emotional disclosure
5.2.2 Low SEC women
5.2.3 High SEC men
5.2.4 High SEC women
5.2.5 Low SEC men
5.3 Age and emotion
5.3.1 Overview
5.3.2 Younger men
5.3.3 Younger women
5.3.4 Older men
5.3.5 Older women
5.4 Summary
6 Experience of Support: Gender, Class and Age
6.1 Research on support
6.2 The experience of support
6.2.1 Overview
6.2.2 Gender specific use of support-related lexis
6.2.3 Socio-economic classification (SEC)
6.2.4 Age
6.3 Sources of support
6.4 Modes of communication
6.3.1 Men’s sources of support: ‘People: Male’ and ‘Belonging to a Group’
6.3.2 Women’s sources of support: ‘Kin’ and ‘family’
6.4 Modes of communication
6.4.1 Use of ‘talk’
6.4.2 Use of ‘phone’
6.4.3 Use of reported speech
6.4.4 Use of ‘write’
6.5 Summary
7 Illness Type and Gender
7.1 Introduction
7.2 The language of illness experience
7.3 Heart disease
7.3.1 Key concepts: Measurement and time
7.3.2 Lifestyle change and self-transformation
7.4 Interaction between heart disease and gender
7.4.1 Overview
7.4.2 Key concept analysis of gender and heart disease
7.5 Summary
8 Conclusion

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